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Al Balmer
What does it matter if comp.lang.c goes down the crapper as long as
you have comp.lang.c.moderated?
You've never actually participated in that group, have you? Try it for
a while.
What does it matter if comp.lang.c goes down the crapper as long as
you have comp.lang.c.moderated?
If the newsgroup was dedicated to
working environments and he DID do his work in his car, would you send
him to a car NG instead as he extolled the virtues of the fold down
seats, built in 19" monitor, keyboard tray and wireless antenna?
Al Balmer said:Irrelevant. This newsgroup is *not* dedicated to work environments,
such as IDEs, monitors, computers, task chairs, etc. If you want a
group about programming work environments, find one or start one.
And again my point goes totally over a regulars head.
Here's another option : rather than savage some polite nOOb looking for
C programmers opinions in this NG, *you* ignore or kill the thread, and
I, and a heap of others, will offer advice on where to go and what to
consider when choosing an IDE to support his C programming. It'll all
stay in one thread and will probably result in LESS replies than when
the regulars here embark on a feeding frenzy of posturing and shouting
"OT" to some unfortunate.
And again my point goes totally over a regulars head.
Here's another option : rather than savage some polite nOOb looking for
C programmers opinions in this NG,
Al Balmer said:This morning, I downloaded over 400 messages which were posted since
Friday afternoon. That, of course, does not include the few posters
that I've killfiled, or the threads I've marked ignore. comp.lang.c
get quite enough traffic, thank you. We *really* don't need to
encourage off-topic posts.
Richard Heathfield <[email protected]> writes:
That statement is total rubbish of course. Talking about C IDE is
talking about C. Whichever way you want to cut it.
You seem to think
that the NG would crumble into a pile of doggy doo just because some
experienced programmers might offer some advice on an IDE to a C nOOb. I
think you might need to get out more. As I said, this is a good resource
for experienced programmers. It doesn't kill anyone to tolerate the odd
thread about C support whether platform specific or not.
"What colour is best for displaying C source?" is a C question. It is not
about the language standard, except in so far as it might influence our
colouring decisions, but it is certainly not a platform-specific matter.
Flashing indigo is distracting but the underscore is not?
What colours to use for the various wires is an electrical engineeringAl Balmer said:Huh? What color to paint my house is a carpentry question, I suppose.
What colours to use for the various wires is an electrical engineering
question.
Nothing inherently to do with electricity, of course, but a useful
convention.
I can identify a function without it being colored,
but can't tell a hot wire from a ground just by looking at it.
You seem to be a bit confused. Font colours, or even font types for that
matter, have absolutely nothing to do with any programming languages, let
alone C. It isn't a matter of being a part of the language standard. It's
simply a matter of having absolutely nothing to do with the language.
OK, which MPI compiler do you recommend for Beowulf clusters?
See the snag?
But engineering is a psychological as well as a material activity. SoAl Balmer said:But it's still not an electrical engineering question. The electrons
don't care what color the sheath is, any more than your compiler cares
what editor you used.
Malcolm said:But engineering is a psychological as well as a material activity. So
colouring schemes for wires are part of electrical engineering. They have
nothing to do with the underlying physical principles on which the devices
work, of course.
As it happens C syntax colouring has not been standardised. That doesn't
mean that conventions or even formal standards are not desireable.
But engineering is a psychological as well as a material activity. So
colouring schemes for wires are part of electrical engineering.
They have
nothing to do with the underlying physical principles on which the devices
work, of course.
As it happens C syntax colouring has not been standardised. That doesn't
mean that conventions or even formal standards are not desireable.
The people who maintain your engineering masterwork are part of the system.Al Balmer said:I'll permit you your definition, strange as it is ;-) But you're a
long way from persuading me.
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It's hard enough to Standardise relatively objective fields. Who wants to
attempt to Standardise aesthetics?
Both per newsgroup and server-wide newsgroup filters are supported inWalter said:... snip ...
I've been using Thunderbird a bit lately as it has -some- useful
facilities -- but the "message filter" facilities do not work on
newsgroups at all.
[OT] I suspect an operator error. I don't use T'bird, but it is a
descendent of what I do use, and the message filters here are per
newsgroup, not global.
[/OT]
I doubt that. You may. Most prefer the direct control they get
from separate compilers, editors, etc.
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