Important Research Project

[Steve Holden]

Kenny McCormack wrote:
> In article <lnsl60o492.fsf at nuthaus.mib.org>,
> Keith Thompson  <kst-u at mib.org> wrote:
>> "E.D.G." <edgrsprj at ix.netcom.com> writes:
>>> "CBFalconer" <cbfalconer at yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>> news:46D6CA0E.E66ED5C8 at yahoo.com...
>>>> "E.D.G." wrote:
>>>> Where is Perl described in the C standard?  This seems rather OT.
>>> It has been my experience that a person who is an expert with one computer
>>> language can usually do reasonably well when working with other languages.
>>> I am trying to find some people who can assist with getting a Perl program
>>> running.  It would probably be easier for expert programmers in any language
>>> to help with this type of work compared with people such as myself who are
>>> not experts in any programming language.
>> CBFalconer's point is that this newsgroup (comp.lang.c, where he and I
>> are both reading this) is for discussion of the C programming
>> language.  If you want to discuss something other than C, please find
>> another forum.  Massive cross-posts like this are rarely appropriate.
> 
> IOW (for the OP and for the various readers in all these groups):
> 
> 	The rod up Keith's butt has a rod up its butt.
> 
> Note, incidentally, that this thread is yet the latest occurrence of a
> phenomenon that I've observed many times in the past, and have
> described here in clc on more than a few occasions.  That is, somebody
> starts a thread, posted to several different groups, in the hope of
> getting help from at least one of them.  The thread is pretty much
> on-topic for most of the groups, primarily because the keepers of most
> of the groups do not have rods up their butts.
> 
> However, and this is the big however, one of the groups listed just
> happens to be clc, where rod-filled butts are the norm.  The result is
> that all of the responses come from clc (including, of course, this one)
> and, as we see, it's all topicality BS, and nobody ever ends up
> discussing the original subject.   Really a pity, that.
> 
Well I am reading your response "here" on c.l.py, where there are no 
keepers because the lunatics have taken over the asylum. If clc has to 
deal with attitudes like yours then it seems there are two sides to the 
problem. Your own behavior would also be considered marginally 
acceptable, containing as it does an unsubstantiated ad hominem attack.

Quite what you think you were doing to encourage the thread back 
on-topic I have no idea. While the OP may have been uninformed about the 
nature of usenet, at least he made his request in a polite and 
unobjectionable fashion. He received some good advice together with a 
certain amount of predictable but probably not fully-deserved hostility.

Everybody makes mistakes. Just let them go by and give your fingers a 
rest. You can't police everyone, and you would be foolish to try. Save 
your efforts for the real trolls like Xah Lee, or are you fortunate 
enough to miss his folk wisdom on clc?

regards
  Steve
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