Re: Article on Herbert Schildt, author of C Unleashed, repaired on wikipedia

On Jan 8, 11:46 pm, "Stephen Howe" <sjhoweATdialDOTpipexDOTcom> wrote:
The 2000 persecution of Herbert Schildt for being a good teacher and
writer by people who can neither teach nor write used usenet, Amazon,
and wikipedia.

EXCUSE ME.

I HAVE TOLD YOU that ISO C AND C++ committee members have expressed
reservations on Herbert Schildt.
That is it. End of story. Their opinion takes preference to yours as they

I'm going to take time now to reply to this ***.

No, that's not the end of story. Instead, it's technical Fascism at
its finest. Why should I believe the committee members? Maybe they
need to get out more.

are the authors of the ISO C and C++ standards

So it is not "2000 persecution"
And he is not a good teacher if he propagates error, which he does.

That's Fascist talk. Even in science and technical realms, teachers
have to have by virtue of their position some minimal opportunity to
simplify and interpret a difficult subject, and in fact they are given
this authority. As soon as you start syllogistically saying, primus,
he is not a good teacher who propagates error, secundus, he who
propagates error should be liquidated (whether as teacher or
physically) you sure as hell sound to me like a thug and a fascist.

The ISO standardization committee for C has no more and no less
standing than Schildt, because they are not doing natural science.
Instead, their existence is based on what is itself a highly dubious
proposition: that C, a notation for enabling low-level, non-
deterministic, and machine dependent code to take advantage of local
conditions in a fine grained way, should be standardized as opposed to
eliminated...as unsafe for most applications.

But note that I here avoid, perhaps at the cost of what you may be
pleased to call verbosity, the Fascist language "the standardization
committee propagates error". I avoid this sort of behaviorism which
focuses on personalities rather than issues, and produces nasty
bullying campaigns. Not to put too fine a point on it, I give a ***.
The little members of the little committee can jerk themselves off all
they want "standardizing" a language which can't be standardized.


Ultimately this is Edward G. Nilges versus ISO C AND C++ committee members..

Oooooo I'm so scared. Part of the attraction of a little known
scientific or technical field, whether linguistics for Chomsky in the
1950s or programming for me in 1973, was the absence of authoritarian
thugs who decide scientific and technical questions by appeals to
prestige.

When they say something on C or C++ it is practically like the Oracle at
Delphi.

This is the (negative) dialectic of enlightenment. Everything gets
soooo fucking complicated for the usual practitioner that indeed he
runs towards Oracles and Gurus rather than taking the human risk of
figuring it out on his own in a library, using authority indeed, but
not to force other people to shut up.

I expect nothing but a grovelling apology from you for maligning the opinion
of ISO C AND C++ committee members.

This is getting pretty kinky. What, you going to hire Ilse, She Wolf
of the SS, Tigress of Siberia, and Harem Mistress of the Oil Sheiks,
to extract an apology from me? That might be kinda wild, but basically
you can forget it, and take your Fascist, authoritarian, content-free,
technology-free, knowledge-free and brutal *** elsewhere, Mr. Stephen
Howe.

Edward G. Nilges


Stephen Howe

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