Mark McIntyre said:
I suspect nobody particularly cared, since what was written was both
correct and noncontrovertial.
You are within your rights to claim that
"But its a futile debate - whether they're sub or supersets of each
other is irrelevant, they're functionalyl quite different languages
and anyone who treats either one as a subset of the other is a Bad
Programmer."
is correct. It is remarkable to me that you claim it is not controversial
(unless we are to read subset to mean exact subset, which noone
has been claiming and hence has not been part of the debate, futile or
otherwise).
Save your ire for times when you're misattributed something offensive
or just plain wrong.
P.J. Plauger's response to your comment was to say "Thanks". He may have
meant it. On a second reading, I thought that his intent may have been
ironic based on another of his posts saying:
"Right, but in our case we have reason to write C code that also
*compiles* as C++ code. And for that reason, we care about the
largest common subset of the two languages."
In other words, he may have taken you (or, much worse, me) to have described
him as a Bad Programmer, hence my concern for the accuracy of the
attribution.
This will be my last reply (and I am refraining from responding to your
other post). I agree with you (though for different reasons) that this has
become pointless.