Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!wolfen!hls0!george From: george@hls0.hls.oz (George Turczynski) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: TRUE and FALSE Message-ID: <934@hls0.hls.oz> Date: 17 Sep 90 01:20:23 GMT References: <11215@alice.UUCP> <514@demott.COM> <2316@cirrusl.UUCP> Lines: 25 In article , mcdaniel@adi.com (Tim McDaniel) writes: > Ye gods, folks, get a clue! ... > > Felix Lee was indeed being ridiculous -- deliberately. It is called > "satire", a subclass of the class "joke". Specifically, he was > "making fun" of the whole TRUE/FALSE definition topic. Trying to > "optimize" those macros was itself a complete waste of time. ... With all the nonsensical things that people post (some of which ARE in earnest) one just can't tell what is foolishness and what is satire. Some of it can't be very good satire, else certain people wouldn't mistake it for foolishness :-) If all such articles were taken as `satire', many people would go on blindly using their sometimes questionable ideas. Where would that leave them ? I will, in future, be on the lookout for such satirical articles :-) -- | George P. J. Turczynski. |---------------------------------------------------- | Computer Systems Engineer. | ACSnet: george@highland.oz | I can't speak for the | | Highland Logic Pty. Ltd. | Phone: +61 48 683490 | company, I can barely | | Suite 1, 348-354 Argyle St | Fax: +61 48 683474 | speak for myself... | | Moss Vale. NSW. Australia. 2577 |----------------------------------------------------