Re: A few questions about C programming.
From: Michael Wojcik (mwojcik_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 10/08/04
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Date: 8 Oct 2004 19:11:31 GMT
In article <2snm7cF1mg32pU1@uni-berlin.de>, "187" <bigal187@invalid.rx.eastcoasttfc.com> writes:
> Michael Wojcik wrote:
> > In article <2sinosF1lvl8bU1@uni-berlin.de>, "187"
> > <bigal187@invalid.rx.eastcoasttfc.com> writes:
> >>
> >> Must not be much of a programmer; those are ROtate Right and Left
> >> instructions. Seems to me exactly what the OP wanted.
> >
> > Chris' post is what we call "humor". It was a non-serious message
> > meant to entertain the reader.
> >
> > Your post is what we call "gratuitous insulting of a regular by a
> > callow newbie". It was a demonstration that, contrary to good
> > netiquette, you did not lurk here sufficiently long to learn who
> > the regulars are and to gauge their proficiency.
>
> My apologies, but I as neither insulting him,
Oh, was "[m]ust not be much of a programmer" intended as a compliment?
> it actually seemed like he did not unserstand it.
It's commonly acknowledged that detecting humor in a terse and
diverse medium like Usenet can be difficult (I think I made this
point in an article I published in _Works and Days_ in the mid-
1990s, in fact, and the situation has not improved). However, you
had to make your determination on *very* little evidence, since
Chris' post was *particularly* terse.
In such a situation it's best to assume as little as possible. If
you did believe he didn't understand, it would have more than
sufficed to provide your explanation without the insult, which was,
as I said, entirely gratuitous.
> True he indeed posts other things of worth, but
> jsut as I misassumed of him ,you mis assumed of me (in assuming I'm a
> "newbie",
I didn't assume that. I hypothesized it, based on your apparent
lack of netiquette, and then searched the archives for other
postings by you to see if they supported my hypothesis. They did,
which is as close as one can get to proof on Usenet.
> which I am not, being aroudn Usenet for over 10 years and
> counting, though not necissarly under the same alias mind you.)
If you change the ID you post under, and don't provide any real
identification, we can hardly tell that, can we? Your behavior
hardly marks you as a veteran.
I've been reading and posting to Usenet for, oh, 13 years and change
now, and of course in that time my posting ID has changed; that's
one reason why I also use my real name.
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