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From: awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Correction, a[33]
Message-ID: <90@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 89 05:54:02 GMT
References: <5819@microsoft.UUCP> <14353@bfmny0.UUCP> <728@abvax.UUCP>
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In article <728@abvax.UUCP>, aep@ivan (Alex E. Pensky) writes:
> I for one am not bothered so much by the novice *questions* as the novice 
> *answers*.  If one (by his own admission) does not know C, then he should
> not try to answer questions on it, novice or otherwise.
> 

Ah, the reverberations from one hasty posting...This is the most interesting
thread I've read here in years.  I followed proper netiquette; I refrained
from responding when I first read a[33] and I've scanned all the replies
to date.  I have only the following comments to offer and then I'll be quiet:

	- I've long thought that Microsoft engineers were a tad cocky,
	  all things considered.
	- "It's not the things you don't know that hurt you; it's the
	  things you do know that ain't so."--Will Rogers, I believe.
	- As for moderating the net, I think the net approximates working
	  in a big programming shop.  There are gurus and there are
	  novices.  The gurus are impatient, gruff and usually right
	  and the novices make a lot of noise and are almost always
	  wrong.  C'est la vie.  (Translated for the net: <shrug>)

Ok, back to the general confusion.

/alastair/

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