Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Is it time for comp.lang.c.dos? Message-ID: <15341@bfmny0.UU.NET> Date: 9 Apr 90 03:15:14 GMT References: <1990Mar29.224413.21552@xenitec.on.ca> <1990Mar31.153231.4926@druid.uucp> <1990Apr3.091427.19910@kfw.COM> <1990Apr5.191012.26651@druid.uucp> <403:Apr901:26:4290@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <456@wattres.UUCP> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Distribution: usa Lines: 15 In article <456@wattres.UUCP> steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt) writes: >There already is such a beast! > >It is called COMP.SYS.IBM.PC.PROGRAMMER!!!!!! Because the people smart enough to pick *just* the right group for their Turbo C questions, are too smart to ask much. :-) It's the squeaky wheel you hear, by definition. The ability to recognize a distinction between "how do structures work" and "how do I change Cuisinart blades using Turbo C" appears to be cultural rather than inbuilt. I'm afraid this is a losing battle. -- "Take off your engineering hat = "The filter has | Tom Neff and put on your management hat." = discreting sources." | tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET