editor, is C obsolete?, and thank you

[Mark McIntyre]

You are missing the point that you are the main offenders at jumping all over anyone
whom you perceive to be off-topic - even mentioning c++ has attracted your ire.
I have never done that.

I don't think he was missing the point actually, I think you may be
though.
In CLC, one builds up 'credit' as it were, by posting topically and
usefully. Newbies start at zero, and a single offtopic posting is
likely to get commented on (as much as anything this is important so
that they *know* its not topical), while multiple ot posts will result
in flames. OTOH, posters with a decade of productive posting history
get cut more slack. Signal-to-noise ratio is important.
--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan

 

[Kenny McCormack]

I don't think he was missing the point actually, I think you may be
though.
In CLC, one builds up 'credit' as it were, by posting topically and

C&V, please.

 

[Old Wolf]

Keith Thompson said:

Is anyone still offended by 'shit' ? They say it on the six o'clock
news now.

I'm familiar with the term, but curious to know why you think that, in
English, it's slang for lying. I'm English, and I have used the English
language for what I consider to be many decades.

In my area, the verb form almost always means that the actor is
lying. "He's bullshitting" is an accusation that the speaker is
intentionally telling untruths.

However, the noun has many uses: lies, untruths which were not
intentional, and in fact anything that the speaker disagrees
with (e.g. "DRM is bullshit").

 

[Richard Tobin]

In CLC, one builds up 'credit' as it were, by posting topically and

[/QUOTE]

C&V, please.

Now *that* was funny.

-- Richard

 

[Mark McIntyre]

Is anyone still offended by 'shit' ? They say it on the six o'clock
news now.

Not in the UK. You can still get fired for saying rude words on tv
before 9pm. Euphemisms for faeces included. On radio, funnily enough,
you can get away with murder...



--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan

 

[Randy Howard]

English. The B stands for "bull", and the S stands for a word
synonymous with feces. Are you unfamiliar with the term?

Substitute it above with your "synonym" and I see:

"I lying them and tell them...."

Doesn't look like English to me.