"Personal attacks"? (In your subject line.) What personal attacks? The
moderator made a small joke at your expense on 1st April. You'd do
better to roll with the joke and have a laugh at it. I suspect you
would gain more respect that way. Your repeatedly shouting that you've
taken such things to higher authorities reminds me of children at
school. So you've told the teacher on him. Well done.
I am no longer interested in the "respect" of ill-educated fools. I
propose that they leave this newsgroup, since it's for the civil
discussion of C by adults.
As to your simile: grow up. We AREN'T in kiddie school, and when I was
at Bell-Northern Research in Mountain View, I could see that it would
fail because a critical mass of employees acted as if BNR was a high
school. They stole equipment, had parties at which rapes occured, and
failed to deliver.
Worse than that, trying to *injure* fellow contributors to these
newsgroups by talking to their publishers is plain spiteful (and
likely of more injury to you than them). Spite is another quality
associated with juveniles. Sorry to say it but IMO it's about time you
grew up and stopped peppering these newsgroups with defences to your
dignity and stuck to talking about C. I guessed from the subject line
that it was you who had started this thread. I can't think of any
other current contributor who behaves as you do.
I may have started this thread, but as usual you don't do your
homework. The fact is that I approached Seebach collegially, offering
to discuss my concerns by email.
He deleted the email unread. He then proceeded to call me names, and
also to demonstrate in a series of incompetent programs that he's not
a qualified C programmer, not in the slightest.
And I will complain to his publisher, since Apress has also published
my book, and his bad behavior makes all Apress authors look bad.
The post in comp.lang.c.moderated, "Time for a handoff, I think," was
in no way a personal attack (and I hope the OP keeps it that way).
However, your response contained
* profanity
Well **** me in the ass. I have already gone on record that it is much
worse to deliberately destroy Schildt's reputation, and cause him and
his family mental anguish, than to use "profanity". My generation
ended a war using "profanity".
* accusation of the OP having some "psychological disorder"
Peter Seebach has stated that he has psychological disorders (ADHD and
autism). Ordinarily, I would ignore this. However, it's obscene for
him to implicitly claim tolerance for his numerous coding errors based
on this excuse while making wild accusations (in "C: the Complete
Nonsense") that 20 trivial errors are really 100s of errors and that
I'm incompetent, a moron and insane.
* assertion that the OP is "incompetent"
This was based on my review of several of his programs, in which I
found newbie errors in each.
In this and in other posts, ISTM that *you* are the one making
personal attacks. I think you therefore also win the award for
hypocrisy. In fact, given the provocation you have provided in the
past I think the OP in comp.lang.c.moderated was being remarkably
restrained.
No, Peter Seebach who is the moderator has a track record of trying to
advance a career as a "programmer" by doing things with null content:
* He probably wrote "C: the Complete Nonsense" to make it appear that
he was more qualified as a C programmer than Schildt, because as it
happens, he has no academic preparation in computer science and is an
incompetent programmer
* He paid his way into the C99 standards board and attended meetings
to add a line to his resume that he then used to add authority to
CTCN. At the meetings, he has said that he didn't contribute.
* He presents trivial and useless routines in this ng to establish
credibility, but these routines (notably a program which is really a
script for replacing one fixed pattern in a very specialized
environment, and which didn't work) are incompetent
If you are offended by any of the above please take time to think
about how you come across.
I know very well how I "come across". Part of the problem here is that
people are afraid to speak their truth, but want to come across as
something which they are not, and Peter Seebach is exhibit A.
