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Message: [QUOTE="James Kuyper, post: 5029517"] I've got Bill Cunningham killfiled, but when I saw his comments quoted by other people I felt I had to respond. Because he's on my killfile, I can't respond to his message directly, so this will be marked as if it's a response to Johannes's Bauer's message. Sorry for the mis-attribution. You've received lots of good explanations over the past decade. People with a wide variety of explanatory styles have done their best to explain things in a way that you might be able to understand, but you've never shown any sign of understanding any of them. My own style is very verbose, detailed, and pedantic; for some people that works, others find it either confusing or off-putting. I'm disappointed, but not surprised, when any particular person fails to understand any particular point I'm trying to make. But no one seems to have a style that works with you. What's particularly depressing is your periodic claims that you have learned something about C, almost always immediately followed by statements that make it quite clear that you have not. If you have indeed found someone who does know how to explain things in a way that you can understand, then I'm happy for you - but based upon previous experience I suspect you're deluding yourself again. A large fraction of the people who post here regularly do so precisely because we enjoy explaining how to use C to people who are eager to learn it, even amateurs and hobbyists. Dozens, possibly hundreds of people have been very patient with you for years. The problem is that, sooner or later, you exhaust everyone's patience, by failing to understand even the very clearest explanations of even the simplest concepts, and by seldom ever following any of the good advice you've been given. [/QUOTE]

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