Richard Nixon wrote:
....
A disproportionate number of the anti-windows zealots provide a
dispropprtionately large fraction of the serious assholes in this world.
Perhaps, but I don't see much of that zealotry in this newsgroup. I
think that most of what you perceive in that fashion is just objections
to implementation-specific questions in general, not objections to
Windows-specific questions in particular.
They will usually equate *any* talk of how a person gets on with either
host or target OS to be like talk of women's lib among sandniggers:
anathema.
If you were trying to demonstrate the filth that fills your mind for in
place of actual thought, you succeeded.
However, if you were trying to accurately describe what happens on this
newsgroup, you failed. The problem isn't talking about the host or
target OS; the problem is when someone asks a question whose answer
depends upon the host or target OS. Any such question is better answered
by the people who monitor newsgroups specific to that OS. That's no more
a matter of anti-windows zealotry than it is a matter of anti-Unix or
anti-Mac zealotry. It just means that there are better places to get an
answer to answer any such question.
If K&R are the Holy Tablets, then one eighth of the time would be about
right. Maybe we should K â€* R , but not seven.
Well, that's sufficiently obscure - are there some words missing that
would turn that into a sentence that makes sense? But I presume you're
trying to imply that some people here treat K&R like divine
commandments. No one here does that. K&R is a very good book for
describing the C language; no more, no less, and there's no one here who
treats it as anything more than that. The language it describes was
fairly well designed, at least in the opinion of most of the people who
are interested in a forum devoted to that language, but no one's has
ever implied that they thought it was divinely inspired. K&R is not the
best textbook for everyone, though I can't vouch for that from personal
experience - it was a great textbook for me.