Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!sun!snafu!lm From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: String lengths Message-ID: <88850@sun.uucp> Date: 8 Feb 89 09:07:31 GMT References: <8876@alice.uucp> <8442@aw.sei.cmu.edu> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 37 In article eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes: $In article <8442@aw.sei.cmu.edu>, firth@bd.sei.cmu.edu (Robert Firth) writes: $> In article <8876@alice.UUCP> dmr@alice.UUCP writes: $> >The history of this convention and of the general array scheme had little $> >to do with the PDP-11; it was inherited from BCPL and B. $> $> A correction here: the C scheme was NOT inherited from BCPL. $ $I've seen bonehead idiocy on the net before, but this tops it all -- this takes $the cut-glass flyswatter. Mr. Firth, do you *read* what you're replying to $before you pontificate? Didn't the name `Dennis Ritchie' register in whatever $soggy lump of excrement you're using as a central nervous system? Do you $realize that the person you just incorrectly `corrected' on a point of C's $intellectual antecedents is the *inventor of C himself*!?! $ $Sheesh. No *wonder* Dennis doesn't post more often. $ $Next time dmr posts something, I suggest you shut up and listen. Respectfully. $-- $ Eric S. Raymond (the mad mastermind of TMN-Netnews) $ Email: eric@snark.uu.net CompuServe: [72037,2306] $ Post: 22 S. Warren Avenue, Malvern, PA 19355 Phone: (215)-296-5718 Is everyone else laughing as hard as I am? Eric, Even the Gods make mistakes, OK? And, although I don't pretend to speak for Dennis Ritchie or anyone else besides myself, I'd suspect that he'd be the last person that would want you to "shut up and listen". The whole point of this newsgroup, and research in general, is to question the obvious, point out the incorrect. It's called learning. Blind faith is called religion and has no place in science. "Sheesh", indeed. Larry McVoy, Lachman Associates. ...!sun!lm or lm@sun.com