linking c++ code with c library

[Richard Bos]

Sjouke is that he makes caustic remarks in a language he doesn't know ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
well. He and his cohort make me wonder about the english curriculum

^

on the continent.

Oh, the irony... or is that, in this case, the rusty scrap-metally?

Richard

 

[Kenny McCormack]

On usenet, .c and .c++ groups sound like the best bet for coming across
someone who's already tackled the problem.

A very good point, that is generally overlooked by the regs.

To put this in a clearer light, consider that one of the hardest lessons
for techy types to learn is that it is people that matter, not
technologies. Alternatively, you might say that it is precisely folks
who don't want to learn (or admit) this that are drawn to Usenet (and
particularly to Usenet groups like CLC). This later formulation is in
the category, alas, of "sad, but true".

Having laid the groundwork, let me state my point, which is this: the
reason Usenet is split up into groups is *not* to segregate the
discussion (as the regs so fervently believe - and this despite
occasional rhetoric to the contrary - rhetoric which can be [and always
is] safely ignored), but rather to increase one's chances of connecting
up with someone who can help. I.e., you don't post macrame questions in
a C group because of a fear of offending the regs (or provoking another
one of Kiki's anxiety attacks); rather the reason you abstain from doing
so is simply because you don't fancy your changes of findind that
macrame expert here.

Needless to say, this argument does not hold for finding people who know
about linking programs (again, despite the fevered rhetoric of the regs
to the contrary).

 

[Phil Carmody]

Maybe it's the finnish influence upon me, but I wish "English" wasn't
so rendered. (And hence occasionally futilely fight it.) Of course,
there would be more than one english curriculum on the continent, so
I'd have proffered 'curricula' as the first correction to be made.

Oh, the irony... or is that, in this case, the rusty scrap-metally?

Should that be 'ore' rather than 'or' ;-) ?

Phil

 

[Nobody]

More importantly, it's not a straw man. I really do have that problem,
and it really is MO that it follows from jacob's arguments that he
should be willing to help me with it.

Only if by "follows from" you mean "taken to an illogical extreme".

You're taking an argument that c.l.c isn't just about the letter of
the ANSI/ISO standards and exaggerating it into an argument that any field
of human endeavour can be made on-topic by reference to using a C program
to assist in that field.

That's the essence of a strawman: take a reasonable position which you
disagree with, and distort it into an unreasonable one which is easier to
argue against.

Let's go back to the question which triggered the strawman:

I can see a question about the use of e.g. #include "..\foo.h" being
on-topic here, and deserving a better reply than citing 6.4.7p3 and all of
the occurrences of "implementation-defined" in 6.10.2 and considering that
to be the end of it.

 

[Frank]

       ^^^^^^^



  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^> well.  He and his cohort make me wonder about the english curriculum

                                                    ^


Oh, the irony... or is that, in this case, the rusty scrap-metally?

Richard

Another irony is that I don't feel the need to follow orthography when
it regards something with which I'm intimate, like ohioans. I do
agree with your take on a straw man. I'd only seen it rendered in the
plural when I came to the net, where the usage was from persons who
don't speak--I'll do it right--English natively.

I joked around with my girlfriend the other day, talking about a dutch
oven. Would I have to capitalize the d for this base event? BTW, the
google portal is as trashed-up as ever. It makes proper usenet
interactions impossible. A person can post, but he can't really read.

http://www.lomas-assault.net/usenet/z1.jpg Cheers,

 

[Frank]

Maybe it's the finnish influence upon me, but I wish "English" wasn't
so rendered. (And hence occasionally futilely fight it.) Of course,
there would be more than one english curriculum on the continent, so
I'd have proffered 'curricula' as the first correction to be made.


Should that be 'ore' rather than 'or' ;-) ?

Having a finnish contributor is truly an asset. I knew Ora Gates. I
assumed it would have the same meaning as "ora et labora."

Now, dems have Orrin playing ball with them. He comes from a part of
utah where everything is redrock.

And then the best pitcher from my alma mater was Orel Herschhiser.
Tja.