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From: ralphc@tekcae.CAX.TEK.COM (Ralph Carpenter)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo C wildcard expansion
Summary: Discussions on style don't go anywhere as far as the protagonists
	 go, but newcomers can learn a lot.
Message-ID: <3266@tekcae.CAX.TEK.COM>
Date: 4 Nov 89 02:02:03 GMT
References: <127107@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1773@naucse.UUCP>
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Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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In article <1773@naucse.UUCP>, wew@naucse.UUCP (Bill Wilson) writes:
> > found that those who like thier code THAT short and concise are the
> > ones that have the mose difficult time debugging it. In fact thier
> > have been those who I would not help untill they "expanded and
> > formatted" thier code, and strange thing happened, they didn't need my
> Here is a good example of the statement that exceptional programmers
> master every high level language but english.  Let's police our
> flame based mail before sending it out.  Also discussions on style
> normally do not get anywhere and are a waste of band width.
> Bill Wilson             (Bitnet: ucc2wew@nauvm | wilson@nauvax)

I have read many good postings by Bill Wilson, but I would disagree a little
with him here.  I personally like the insight that comes from watching two
learned people engage in a (well-mannered) discussion.  As far as the typo-s,
if it's something worthwhile, I can overlook most of them.

Ralph Carpenter
Tektronix, Inc.
M/S 19-075
Beaverton, OR 97077