Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!sics.se!fuug!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jadbalja!tt From: tt@jadbalja.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: pointer size Message-ID: Date: 31 May 91 06:29:59 GMT References: <6001@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <6218@tellab5.tellabs.com> <13697@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <16307@smoke.brl.mil> Sender: news@jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: University of Jyvaskyla Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil's message of 30 May 91 03: 51:11 GMT Originator: tt@jadbalja.jyu.fi Nntp-Posting-Host: jadbalja.jyu.fi In article <16307@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes: >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. I'm sorry to hear that (and I hope you'll stay around in comp.std.c). Perhaps it would be a good idea to start a moderated group, say, comp.lang.c.gurus or something like that, if only a suitable moderator (or several) could be found (volunteers?). -- Tapani Tarvainen (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)