Re: Why I've returned

In article <6528c690-56ec-44a6-909c-93e027a71ca5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
spinoza1111 <spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As the author of Build Your Own .Net Language and Compiler (Apress
2004) I now regard Richard's attack on Herb Schildt in 2000 not as a
good faith technical critique, with the charity that is needed as
regards a language which is non-deterministic owing to aliasing, but
as a personal and professional hit-man's job intended to destroy sales
of Herb's book, so that Richard and his team could rake in the big
bucks for a book, which disregards real praxis in favor of a standard
that is mostly a dead letter.

From what I have heard, the only way you are getting "big bucks" from
a programming book is if a herd of deer show up in your living room.

It prefigured and it enabled the very serious attacks on Java expert
Kathy Sierra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra) which
included death threats and pornography in 2007.

When I first read this I assumed that you were implying that Richard
had been the cause of death threats on Ms. Sierra. I sincerely
hope that was not your intention.

As of today, Richard's basic honesty is seriously in question. He
claimed yesterday to have taken a test on C++ and to have gotten 80%,
but later in the thread "Brian Kernighan, maybe I'm not worthy, maybe
I'm scum" he says that he answered "a tenth" of the 50 questions of
the C++ test and disregarded the rest. This means that he has lied
about receiving a score of "80%".

English is ambiguous. I, and it would appear most others, assumed
that he meant that there were about 10% of the questions to which
he did not give an answer. Sheesh.

Alan
--
Defendit numerus
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