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From: tcm@srhqla.UUCP (Tim Meighan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When is a cast not a cast?
Message-ID: <666@srhqla.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 89 18:06:55 GMT
Reply-To: tcm@srhqla.UUCP (Tim Meighan)
Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
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In article <2919@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:

     >What question?  Okay, I got one for you:  what is the meaning of life?
     >Define it semantically.  Screw formalism.  Just give me a ballpark es-
     >timate.  If it's not on my desk in the morning, life must cease to exist.

Blair, you have now also convinced your very captive audience that you do not
know how to properly map analogies.

     >I merely came up with an idea.  It's up to the professionals to come up
     >with reasons that it is viable.  

WRONG AGAIN, dude!  One condition of a scientific idea is that it must have
tests to show that it is NOT viable, not that it IS viable.  No one else
HAS to show why it's GOOD.   That's YOUR responsibility, it's YOUR idea.
"The professionals" get to apply tests to see if the idea is JUNK.  If you 
don't allow tests to disprove your idea, you have no business pretending
you are presenting anything of possible value. 

There are many professional people on this net who live and breath
the C language.  Some of these people have indeed taken the time to
explain why your idea is NOT viable in C.  You don't care about the
explanations.  You're not even listening.

So program in C however you want.  Do it any way you feel like.  And keep
making an ass of yourself to thousands of people.  It's really amusing.

Tim Meighan
SilentRadio

"I'm sure that if I keep screaming loudly enough that the world
 IS flat, they'll just HAVE to start believing me!!!"