Re: A note on computing thugs and coding bums

spinoza1111 said:

<snip>

Almost every review mentions that he's a good writer,

Right. There are many good writers. Being a good writer is a nice-to-have
for a C tutorial writer, but it is not sufficient of itself. A detailed
knowledge of C is also a requirement.

<snip>

You "post links". Well, the Vandals' article on Herb in wikipedia
shows that on the Internet, anyone can "post links" elsethread to ruin
another person strictly by innuendo,

Nevertheless, both Clive Feather and Peter Seebach (each of whom either is
or was a member of the ISO C committee, and each of whom is well-respected
by other C experts) have provided detailed critiques of Schildt books,
demonstrating not by innuendo but by analysis that those books are deeply
flawed - the intent not being to "ruin another person" but to inform
people who wish to obtain a good C book precisely why Schildt's books do
not fall into that category.

<much raving snipped>

[Snip] "computing thugs" & "coding bums" subjective drivel, none of
[which I
recognise in many USENET programmers and I have been here since 1995.

Richard Heathfield is a computing thug because he is misusing this
site for commercial gain.

That is not true for several reasons:

(a) it's a newsgroup, not a Web site;
(b) I'm not misusing it (or even using it) for commercial gain;
(c) even if I were which I'm not, and even if it were which it isn't,
misusing a Web site for commercial gain is certainly opprobrious but you
have not demonstrated why it implies that those who do so are computing
thugs.

Randy Howard is a coding bum who doesn't
contribute much more than abuse and conventional wisdom.

He actually contributes quite a lot to this newsgroup. As for conventional
wisdom, I'd rather read articles containing conventional wisdom than those
containing unconventional stupidity.

Both are
thugs also because they vandalize threads with opinions about
personalities.

If that argument is valid, then you are a thug, because you vandalise
threads with opinions about personalities. And where does that get us?
Nowhere.

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