Re: A note on computing thugs and coding bums

On Jan 9, 8:01 pm, Richard Heathfield <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
spinoza1111 said:

On Jan 9, 4:19 pm, user923005 <dcor...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Richard, you're being trolled.  I think it is pretty obvious.  I don't
think he believes one word of what he is saying.  He's just pushing
hot buttons to see if he can get responses.  Of course, he might
really be that thick, but I doubt it.

I'm not trolling. My name is Edward G.Nilges. After a 30 year career
in programming, which started with compiler debugging in machine
language and included the development of several large systems and
assisting a Nobel winner,

ROTFL! Are you still waving that old chestnut around? You are on record as
saying that you had two contacts with him, lasting a total of around an
hour. Even if this is true, which has not been established, it puts the
level of your "assistance" into perspective.

I saw him on an almost daily basis between 1987 and 1992, and answered
some of his questions. However, he kept to himself with respect not
only to me but also to most people. I was asked to work with him more
closely in 1992, and I find problems, and their solutions, quickly.

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I used this ng in 2003 while writing my book and since that time have
been stalked and harassed by a group led by Richard Heathfield,

You keep saying this, but it keeps on not being true. I'm not interested in
stalking or harassing anyone. But if you post falsehoods in public, it is
not unreasonable for people to post criticisms or corrections - and that
is all that I'm doing.

This is not true. You appear to work full time under the rule that
anything your enemies post, you will make a reply, even when you have
nothing to add except the implication that they are liars.


the editor of C Unleashed, an inferior and low-sales book.

To what do you consider it inferior, and on what grounds? As for the sales
volume, you say it is low. Relative to what? Tolkien? Pratchett? K&R2?
Considering that C's days of being the latest fashion were long gone when
the book was published, it didn't do that badly compared to other techie
books of the same kind.

The C Programming Language by Kernighan et al. currently ranks, after
all these years, 2136 amongst titles of all sorts. Schildt's C book
ranks, as I write 132569. Real programmers, who have in the main to
maintain C, rely on their books, not on your advice about how to use
standard C.


Basically, I cannot post here,
although I shall, without that post being vandalized
by a cybernetic mob incited by Mr. Heathfield

Replying to a post does not constitute vandalism. Nor is there a mob. Nor
would I be inciting it, even if there were.

No, there is a mob, and I have been subject to the vilest kind of
abuse in direct proportion to the surprise, originality, and overall
depth of my posts by people who post crap.



who always seems to find
time in his busy schedule to insert a post questioning not content but
competence

Wrong. I mean, it's true that I question your competence, yes, but the
reason I question your competence is that my questioning of your content
almost inevitably leads to evasiveness on your part.

It's not your role here to question anyone's competence, I'm afraid.
What part of peer to peer don't you understand?


in a way deliberately designed to emotionally manipulate
the programmers at this site, most of whom are less than competent and
thereby filled with anxiety, an anxiety they cover up by bullying and
joining electronic Lynch mobs.

Don't be daft.

Richard's bad faith is indicating by his harassment of respected
industry figure Herbert Schildt

Respected by whom? You? Schildt's works are notoriously buggy and he
notoriously doesn't care.

Books can't be "buggy".


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I have recently suspended posting

Not so's anyone would notice.

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I repeatedly demonstrate the difference between criticising a person's
output and engaging in systematic campaigns of personal destruction
for economic gain, which appear to be Mr. Heathfield's hobby.

Well, I've criticised your output and I've criticised Schildt's output, but
only because it's rubbish. As for the systematic campaign of personal
destruction for economic gain, I've already explained why that would
require me to invest in a time machine.

Next time, read posts with due diligence so you don't make stupid
mistakes. I identified Heathfield as the author of C Unleashed,

Next time, read YOUR OWN posts with due diligence so you don't make stupid
mistakes. You identified Schildt as the author of C Unleashed, in the
subject line of the message with ID:
<5eedc5fc-f484-4866-a260-331558110...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

and
Schildt as the author of The Complete C++ Reference.

Whilst it is true that there are several references to such a work on the
Web (thirteen, according to my search), I think you'll find that the title
is actually "C++ - The Complete Reference" (which gets 17000+ hits).

And before you
make wild accusations of trolling, do your homework. Otherwise, you're
just another slob who's found a mob to follow.

You see, user923005? He really /is/ that stupid.

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