[ OP didn't appear on news.qwest.net, so I'll respond here... ]
| On 2006-06-24,
sp*********@yahoo.com <sp*********@yahoo.com> wrote:
|| "segfault city" was an interchange wherein Richard Heathfield
|| posted a complete lie:
||
|| <heathfield>
|| Richard Heathfield wrote:
||| This would be a straightforward test for numerics:
|||
||| int to_digit(int ch)
||| {
||| return isdigit((unsigned char)ch) ? ch - '0' : -1;
||| }
|||
|| </heathfield>
||
|| I have made all the replies I am going to make, since this is
|| comp.lang.c, and I have no special expertise in the outdated
|| language C, which needs to be retired because it cannot be
|| standardized. My replies will clutter the newsgroup with a flame
|| war and nettiquette demands I make this decision.
I've read Richard's postings to comp.lang.c for more than a decade and
have never found him to speak other than forthrightly and truthfully.
Moreover, his honest mistakes (very few and very far between) have
been immediately and gracefully acknowledged.
The C programming language /has/ been standardized; and you can
download a copy of the official standard from the ANSI store
(
http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstor...NCITS%2FISO%2F
IEC+9899%2D1999) for a paltry US$18.
|| Richard Heathfield, this night, has been sitting at his computer
|| firing off confusion and lies to maintain his position in this
|| intellectual slum. He didn't have the courage to comment at dds
|| although other people have, one with an absurdly global charge of
|| incompetence.
Richard has no "position" in comp.lang.c other than "participant". He
has earned considerable respect from his peers for his patience and
willingness to help those who seek to learn how to write
standard-compliant C programs.
I have difficulty equating courage to posting on a blog - so I suspect
that you and I may define courage differently. I've chosen to respect
Richard's courage because I respect his integrity - and because I
perceive that the former is a prerequisite for the latter.
As far as comp.lang.c being an intellectual slum, I would guess that
(as with the rest of usenet) what you get is what you bring.
|| I will instead fix the error at the original site for the
|| community at that site. Thanks to the users who pointed out the
|| strcat error (REH did not, instead made global charges).
Correcting errors is nearly always a good idea. Even better than
correcting errors - especially if one accepts the responsibilities
inherent in teaching others - is exercising the care to not present
those errors to students who lack the knowledge and experience to
recognize them as errors.
|| I no longer plan to post to or examine either comp.programming or
|| comp.lang.c since it is filled with data smog, created by people
|| with low self-esteem who cannot post elsewhere.
Ok. My observation is that the participants here are primarily
interested in learning and teaching the C programming language in a
standard-compliant fashion. If neither of those activities is where
your interest lies, then there are probably more worthwhile places for
you to focus your attention.
|| The above claim and code by Richard Heathfield was really the last
|| straw because it is a lie: the code does not test for numerics at
|| all. It's not an honest mistake but part of an effort to sow
|| confusion and bad feeling, directly comparable to the insinuations
|| made about John Kerry's war record and that's why I called it
|| Swift Boating.
|| I don't need this shit.
Well yes, I think I'm beginning to see what you mean about
"intellectual slum". You've just strongly reinforced my earlier
impression.
|| Richard Heathfield is Swift Boating me as he and his buddies Swift
|| Boated Herb Schildt, with a Bush-like campaign of confusion (as in
|| his babbling about EBCDIC) and lies as in the above code.
Babbling? I guess it may be one of those cases in which you needed to
be there to understand. FWIW, he wasn't babbling - I lived in an
EBCDIC-only universe for seven years. Remember, just because you
didn't see it doesn't mean it wasn't there - or that it wasn't
important.
--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto