Re: A note on computing thugs and coding bums

spinoza1111 said:

You have produced reams of output containing actionable civil and
criminal libel,

If you truly believe that, why haven't you sued me? Put up or shut up.


no usable code

I have posted a fair amount of usable code here in comp.programming - I
rarely post usable code in replies to you because normally my replies to
you are corrections of factual errors that you have made. Since most of
your verbiage is non-code-related, most of your errors are likewise
non-code-related, and thus so are my corrections. If you want to see
usable code from me, look in threads in which you have *not* participated.

and no usable tips beyong unsafe
conventional wisdom and when cornered, like a rat, you refer to
offline documents that none of us have time to verify.

Many of the documents to which I refer when pointing out your errors and
evasions are Usenet articles that you wrote yourself, and they can be
found online in the Usenet archive maintained by Google, at its "Google
Groups" site. The only documents I can recall mentioning that are offline
are ISO/IEC 9899:1990 and ISO/IEC 14882:1998, both of which are highly
relevant and to which many expert C and C++ programmers will have access;
nevertheless, these documents are not free, it is true - but you will find
that the draft versions of those documents vary only in trivial detail
from the final versions, and the drafts *are* available online.

So, yet again, the facts are against you, and the due diligence you demand
from others you yourself eschew.

You use this ng for personal gain

No, I don't. I use this newsgroup for discussing computer programming (when
I'm not rebutting idiot claims, that is).

and to trash the reputations of MEN
who have the BALLS to emit CODE

If you actually look for code I have posted to this group, you will have no
difficulty finding it unless you are astoundingly incompetent.

and write (not edit) BOOKS

I note from a quick check at Amazon that your own book is 408 pages long.
Clearly you consider yourself to have written that book.

"C Unleashed" comprises around 1250 pages not including the index, of which
I wrote around 350. "The Unix Programming Environment", by Kernighan and
Pike, is about 350 pages long. So is "Expert C Programming", by Peter van
der Linden. (K&R2 is 272 pages, including index.)

So the amount of material I contributed directly to "C Unleashed" is
comparable to the amount of material available in other programming books,
*and* the book also contains another 900 pages or so of material by other
authors.

I was not the editor of "C Unleashed", a false claim that you keep making.
It is true that I did help out one of the contributing authors who knew
his subject just fine but did sometimes struggle to put it into words. (I
will not be identifying which author it was, for obvious reasons.) The
book's development editor was Gus Miklos, who did a fine job, by the way.

that of course might contain ERRORS,

All books contain errors. The issue here is the promulgation of errors in
future editions and future titles, *after* those errors have been brought
to the author's attention.

because even with errors, code and
writing demonstrate truth to the intelligent reader and participates
in a scientific adventure, one in which you are uninterested because
Job One, for Dickie Heathfield, is that no-one think he is the little
rotter he feels, perhaps knows, he is.

If it makes you feel big and tough to mock other people's names, well,
that's up to you. But it doesn't make you *look* big and tough.

<snip>

You sit in your *** and you VANDALIZE technical discussions.

You don't /have/ technical discussions. Whenever we get technical, you go
all sociological.

The
first person to notice the error in my transliteration of the C code
was not you, it was Ben Bacarisse,

All credit to Ben for that, but finding bugs in your code is hardly
difficult.

--
Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk>
Email: -http://www. +rjh@
Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php>
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
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