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Mark McIntyre
Tony said:Sorry Keith, I don't really understand what you are saying here.Are you
saying that subjects like this should be cross posted to
comp.lang.whatever (and risk the wrath of the usual suspects) or not be
posted at all?
No, keith is saying that the material isn't topical in CLC, and should
be posted elsewqhere.
I am one year into programming now and hope to make a living out of it
someday. Personally speaking I have zero experience with other languages
outside of C and hence have found Jacob's recent posts about stacks,
debugging and linking very informative
The problem is, NONE of that is generally true in C. It may happen by
coincidence to be true on the specific platform you're using - but one
day you'll move to a different platform, and discover to your horror
that it was all misleading.
- if he had posted them to
comp.lang.fortran or wherever I would have missed them.
I'm one year into a bricklaying course; comments about how to decide
where to put headers and how many wallties to insert would be useful to
me. If I got them in CLC it''d save me the effort of finding a more
appropriate place.
I have learned one hell of a lot here recently just by browsing (when I
get completely stuck I'm sure I'll be asking questions) but have been
getting increasingly pissed off with the "off topic" brigade and the
(seeming) mob of regulars who just bitch about one and other.
That's a shame, because it suggests you've missed a VERY important
aspect of usenet: there are many tens of thousands of groups, each
specialising in something.
Imagine if, instead of magazines for cookery, acupuncture, DIY, home
cooking and microprocessor design, we just had one HUGE magazine
covering everything. Woudl that really be useful?
If you want to learn general programming techniques, comp.programming is
a really good place to hang out. If you want to learn language-specific
stuff, hang out in CLC.
To all: give a thought for us learners.
This is /precisely/ why people correct Jacob - because he's misleading you.
I for one am here for an
education - in the art of C
ok, clc is the right place.
and programming in general.
ok, clc is the /wrong/ place/.