Re: Brian Kernighan, maybe I'm not worthy, maybe I'm scum

spinoza1111 said:

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He scored 86%, but you're playing games, jerkface. Common courtesy
would have had him repeat the data point,

Common courtesy would have had you read the replies you sought when you
posted the original challenge. Common courtesy would have you refrain from
using expletives in a public discussion forum. Common courtesy would have
you posting your sociology monologues in sociology newsgroups rather than
computer programming newsgroups. You have *nothing* to say about common
courtesy that I could possibly want to read.

You are violating canons of courtesy which are REQUIRED to make this
useful as a means of communicative learning, and I believe in your
case you are doing so in the pay of a corporation or an intelligence
agency lest the Internet be used by labor effectively.

Oh right - I work for MI5. I forgot. Thanks for the heads-up.

Randy did very well UNLESS he's a daily user of C++, which I don't
think he is.

Randy recognises that the test score is meaningless.

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