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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: pointer size
Message-ID: <16307@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 30 May 91 03:51:11 GMT
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In article <13697@dog.ee.lbl.gov> torek@elf.ee.lbl.gov (Chris Torek) writes:
>Where were you last week when this was done to death?  Or three weeks
>ago when it was also done to death?  Or eight weeks ago when it was also
>done to death?  Or four months ago when it was also done to death?  Or...
>How many times do we have to tell you?
>*READ THE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.*

Chris, maybe it's a law of thermodynamics in action -- entropy (lack of
information) is a nondecreasing function of time, no matter what one
tries to do about it.

This newsgroup used to be a useful tool for the working C programmer,
but recently it seems to have degenerated into a vehicle for ignorant
people to pester the net instead of going to the trouble to learn the
C language themselves.  Perhaps we've been contributing to this by
helping too much when we should have been saying "GO STUDY THE
AVAILABLE INTRODUCTORY C LITERATURE AND DON'T BOTHER US UNTIL YOU
UNDERSTAND THE BASICS".

I don't think I can justify spending any more time helping out, so I'm
unsubscribing from comp.lang.c.  If anyone has an INFORMED question
about C that they want my help with, they can contact me directly.