Re: Is my CS instructor nuts?


Richard Heathfield wrote:
spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx said:

Pearls before swine, and all that. For valid software, see Edward G.
Nilges, Build Your Own .Net Language and Compiler,

Why should we believe you are capable of producing valid software in a book,
when you appear incapable of it in Usenet?

Richard is here just lying. I bailed out of the business of "posting
code" because the participant who asked me to do so asked me only so he
could "flame" the code, for any reason he could find including my use
of Hungarian, some trivial efficiency issues not relevant to the
purpose of the code, and a bug fixed in an hour.

The book software was tech edited by the best people in the business
and it's been used by several, so I have no concerns on that score.

It reduces, dear boy, to pearls before swine: Matthew 7:6:

"Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls
before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again
and rend you."

Since our Glorious Leader secretly moderates this group, this will
not appear unless and until he has approved it.

I don't claim that Richard Heathfield moderates the group. I do claim
that he sets the tone, and may do so as a paid agent.

*Everyone* here sets the tone, and nobody here gets paid for doing Usenet as
far as I know. I know for sure that I don't.

You are being childish. You can't accept the fact that your aliteracy,
illiteracy and lack of culture is exposed on this group, therefore its
inverse MUST be, in all cases, "verbosity" or the ravings of the
deranged.

"Aliteracy", in comp.programming, means "hasn't read Knuth". "Illiteracy"
means "doesn't know at least one programming language sufficiently well to
write robust, correct programs in it". And "lack of culture" doesn't really
mean anything at all without further refinement of your intended meaning of
"culture" (which can mean many things). So the inverse would not be
verbosity, nor your deranged ravings, but "has read Knuth, and knows at
least one programming language sufficiently well to write robust, correct
programs in it" (the inverse of "lack of culture" being shelved until the
outstanding semantic question is resolved).

So a child molestor who read Knuth, and knows at least one programming
language sufficiently well to write robust, correct programs in it (and
there are people like this) is welcome here as "literate".

I do hope you do not mean that.

But even if you do not, "aliteracy" simply does not mean what you say
it does. It MEANS "doesn't read or write much, does not like to."

It's been my consistent observation that people who lack general
scientific and humanistic culture, with an emphasis on the latter, make
horrid programmers who have to be beaten into submission by GUI
designers and who don't know how to document. There is evidence that
despite your skill, you may be in part a member of this tribe: your
exagerrated claims for C, for example, indicate that you are, in an
aliterate and uncultured fashion, unable to relate general news items
which are sourced in failures of embedded systems to the deficiencies
of C.

If there were more general humanistic culture and less aliteracy here
there would be fewer complaints about verbosity, and fewer (extremely
unkind, IMO) comparision of ANY lengthy text to tinfoil ravings. Not
that I give a ***, but it discourages true lurkers (not poster gals,
blmblm.)



I'll note that Richard is too homophobic to even use my name, as is the
case with most of you clowns, except in a mocking register.

(a) "homophobic" is a question-begging word, and I don't play those games;
(b) I do in fact quote the name used in the From: field whenever I reply to
any article. That field is under your control, not mine, so if that field
doesn't contain your name, that's your problem, not mine.

But this is an automatic insertion. I am referring to a conscious
choice, a speech act, which you do not make and which, I warn you,
makes you a rather unpleasant fellow to deal with. You might get more
contracts if you seemed less like a cold fish.

--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)

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