Re: [EGN} Please any one suggest me some project ideas

From: Randy Howard (randyhoward_at_FOOverizonBAR.net)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:11:35 GMT

In article <f5dda427.0402091758.67358ad5@posting.google.com>, spinoza1111
@yahoo.com says...
> > > Mr Howard's criticism of Mr Nilges appears to be based on Mr Howard's
> > > reading of articles posted by Mr Nilges. These are not "tertiary sources"
> > > but "primary sources". I am no mathematician (and, as Pascal wrote to
> > > Fermat, "that is a great defect"), so I make no comment on Mr Harter's
> > > contributions to this newsgroup, one way or the other.
>
> The problem is that Randy has no basis for his absurd charges,

Of course I do. You have demonstrated, for at least a solid month or
more, that you know absolutely nothing about programming. Not just
in your source code, but in your lack of knowledge of programming languages,
O(n) notation, ADT's, the difference between sound algorithms and micro-
optimization, etc., etc., etc. The list is darn near endless. Just in
case you really are too blind to see it, I'm not the only one, by a long
shot, to come to the exact same conclusions.

> and these were minor, "toy" programs meant as illustrative of a subsequent case,
> which I decided not to make when I encountered your trolling, Richard.

Funny, I sort of doubt you are capable of writing anything BUT toy programs.

> Randy's opinion is based on the disbelief that it is possible for one
> person to include programming in a wider range of interests

Wrong. It's based upon your demonstrated incompetence, on an almost daily
basis since before Christmas.

> and this is because so many programmers are so poorly prepared for the
> intellectual challenge of programming

You being the most obvious example of that theory.

[persiflage snipped]

> As I pointed out in Dec 2000 in my review of Steve McConnell's book on
> certification

You forgot to repeat "popular". You're slipping Mr. Senile.

[more gibberish elided]

> Let me be blunt. C is used as a fashion statement.

Really? You must hang out with some very poorly dressed individuals
to come to that conclusion. I thought it was a programming language.
Hmmm, but you don't even recognize it when it is shown to you, so
why should you not be confused about its purpose as well.

> You will have the opportunity
*cough*
> in May of this year to buy "Design Your Own .Net Languages and
> Compilers" and to see 20K LOC by yours truly

Where 5K would have likely been sufficient?

> and I will have to ask you to buy a copy. I welcome you then to post
> your critiques of the code.

I won't buy a copy. I might check it out at the local bookstore,
and see firsthand how longwinded you can be in book form. But I
won't donate one lousy dollar to propping up your continued
fraudulent activities as a pretend programmer.
 
> Randy probably hasn't read the code of the only examples, "truth
> table" and "item parser" which were written in a language, C, which I
> no longer regularly use.

You really don't know how to listen, or read do you? There is a
reason you have two eyes, two ears, and only one mouth.

> But he has no right (1) to make global statements as he's done and

Sure I do.

> (2) infer from a small set the right to make those statements.

I can say what I please, particularly when my statements are backed up
so completely by your own self-destructive posts here. I am not the
first (or I'll wager the last) to notice this.

> Ordinary courtesy would bid him shut his yap if I'd posted the "Quick
> Basic subset compiler's code" and for some reason he concluded from
> this code I'm a bozo.

I'll make a deal with you. As soon as you stop posting gibberish to
this newsgroup, I'll stop talking about you and/or your pathetic
code. Promise. But, as soon as you start lying again, or misleading
people on purpose, or just plain trolling, or any of the usual
suspects, I'll be on your case again. BTW, if your book is as full
of it as it is likely to be, that'll be cause for discussion as well.

> Ordinary courtesy and the avoidance of interpersonal Fascism would

You have no grounds to talk about courtesy. EVER. You started the
death spiral in that area over 2 years ago. Your repeated attempts
to skirt by the Godwin's Law invocation while associated people with
war criminals is also less than courteous, you raving lunatic.

> cause him to want, each time he expresses the opinion that I don't
> know what I am doing, to carefully justify this opinion not only with
> a detailed critique but also an alternate solution: this would be
> truly "on topic" in a way his Rants are not. Of course, both of you
> clowns specialize in merely repeating the insulting claim without not
> once backing it up.

It's been backed up dozens of times. You're denying it doesn't make
them go away. The alternate solution is simple. Stop pretending to
be competent in this field, and start giving speeches to the
ladies auxiliary club about the philosphy of earthworms and the
socio-economic crises arising from their employment in gardens.
Everybody wins.

> You claim you want people to "learn". Pray, what have they learned
> from TWO YEARS of your trolling?

You have an amazing ability for self-caricature. Do you realize
that?

> Richard, you are, in all probability, a paid police agent who
> emotionally manipulates fools into doing actual work

Basis? Come on, let's here it. I know you wouldn't post such a
thing without backing it up. That would be hypocritical.

> Randy is, in all probability, a retiree who's "worked on" "operating
> systems and device drivers" in an undisclosed fashion which doesn't
> imply he's capable of anything but low-level maintenance.

You are free to believe what you want. I'm more than happy that
the balance is decidedly in my favor on that score, and you aren't
capable of understanding even the simplest of code, so I see no
point in trying to explain it to you.

> I haven't any respect for either of you.

Well, we finally found something we have in common. However, since
my opinion of a philosopher is off-topic here, I guess that's enough
about that.

> Ordinary common sense would bid Mr Howard shut his yap when the only
> code posted was, apart from extempore whiteboard code, the two
> examples in question. He has made himself a fool.

I'll let the record stand for itself. You haven't fooled anyone but
yourself. 

-- 
Randy Howard                
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