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Sarah Wren
Give it up. You do not have the time.
Hi "Sarah"Give it up. You do not have the time.
jacob navia said:Le 27/05/12 12:26, Sarah Wren a écrit :
Hi "Sarah"
I am profoundly touched by your interest in the time I have.
Thanks a lot but I have to confess you something: I decide
what do I do with my time.
Pathetic...
jacob navia said:Le 27/05/12 12:26, Sarah Wren a écrit :
Hi "Sarah"
I am profoundly touched by your interest in the time I have.
Thanks a lot but I have to confess you something:
I decide
what do I do with my time.
jacob navia said:Le 27/05/12 12:26, Sarah Wren a écrit :
Hi "Sarah"
I am profoundly touched by your interest in the time I have.
Thanks a lot but I have to confess you something: I decide
what do I do with my time.
Pathetic...
"Jake"
[...]
*plonk*
No, I haven't, that's why I'm asking questions. If you won't help me,
why don't you just go find your lost manhood elsewhere.
I am or you are? Explain.
[... stupid strawman smear ...]
//QP
What puzzles me is the thinking behind Mr Navia's obsession with re-
inventing C++ badly.
Judging from his behavior in this group, he is mainly interested in
making as much money for himself as possible. ...
Or maybe it's just an eccentric hobby for him.
I've seen no evidence to support that judgment. His compiler is
available free to non-commercial users. Others have occasionally talked
about such things as the responsibilities he bears toward his paying
customers - to which he has responded by vehemently denying having any
paying customers. I pointed out that this logically implies that he has
never actually succeeded in convincing anybody to actually pay for a
commercial license. He responded with scatology and an assertion that he
does have customers, but failed to address the issue of whether or not
he has any paying customers. I assume that he does have some paying
customers, and was exaggerating when he claimed to have none.
jacob navia said:It is just OK to insult jacob navia, the "evil doer". since he
is not GNU, refuses to pass to C++ and insists that C is a worthwhile
programming language.
Stefan said:If you have some kind of "competition", then it's called "Objective-C"
[...]Quentin Pope said:What puzzles me is the thinking behind Mr Navia's obsession with re-
inventing C++ badly.
I think Jacob likes to eat occasionally. Maybe even likes the odd beer. So he's decided to do that by selling compilers. The problem is, he has to compete with high quality free offerings, even from Microsoft. So one option is to offer extensions to the language that no-one else has. Then commercialusers will possibly pay for a licence, and he can have those beers.I think he honestly considers the language compiled by lcc-win to be an
improvement over both C and C++, and is promoting it for that reason,
and not for his own monetary advantage.
I think Jacob likes to eat occasionally. Maybe even likes the odd
beer. So he's decided to do that by selling compilers. The problem
is, he has to compete with high quality free offerings, even from
Microsoft. So one option is to offer extensions to the language that
no-one else has. Then commercial users will possibly pay for a
licence, and he can have those beers. The extensions don't have to be
better than standard C in any absolute sense. They just have to offer
an advantage to enough people to form a customer base, for Jacob's
strategy to be reasonable.
[...]Quentin Pope said:What puzzles me is the thinking behind Mr Navia's obsession with re-
inventing C++ badly.
Quentin, even assuming there's some validity to what you write about
jacob, you lose a great deal of credibility by posting it as a followup
to an obvious troll.
(Not that your thoughts about jacob were either particularly credible or
relevant here in the first place.)
Quentin Pope said:A fair point. In fact I was hoping to steer the thread, albeit a thread
started with a trollish post, into a more constructive direction.
I'm genuinely interested to understand Mr Navia's motivations. He is
obviously an intelligent person, yet sometimes he comes across as someone
living in an alternate reality, so delusional is his view of his own role
in the development of C.
It's similar to the way a large number of otherwise sensible and
reasonable people claim to believe in christianity or other religious
hocus-pocus. I find that willful self-delusion is also fascinating to
study.
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