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James Kuyper
Tony said:Is it not silly to disallow discussions of PRACTICAL usage of C and to only
allow discussion of the starter ingredients that the C standard provides?
No. Those so-called "starter" ingredients are sufficiently complicated
in themselves to more than justify a newsgroup devoted solely to
discussion of them. More to the point, what you call PRACTICAL usage of
C invariably requires specialized knowledge, not known to all C
programmers (not even to all of the experts). As such, it's more
fruitful to discuss so-called "practical" C in a newsgroup devoted to
the relevant specialty (such as windows programming, or unix
programming, or gcc-C, etc.