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In the years past, there used to very interesting discussions in c.l.c

But now, topics are not as interesting anymore.

What happened?

Oct 22 '08 #1
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timer <ti***@nospam.invalidwrites:
>In the years past, there used to very interesting discussions in c.l.c
>But now, topics are not as interesting anymore.
>What happened?
The same discussions kept resurfacing but, this time around, you no
longer found them interesting?

--
Chris.
Oct 22 '08 #2
On 22 Oct 2008 at 0:35, timer wrote:
In the years past, there used to very interesting discussions in c.l.c

But now, topics are not as interesting anymore.

What happened?
In a word: Heathfield.

He and his chums have made the group increasingly inward-looking and
hostile to newcomers, and set such narrow bounds on topicality that most
working C programmers have no reason to hang around and get the ISO
Standard stuffed down their throat every time they open their mouth.

Or to put it another way: if the return type of main() and the behavior
of i=i++; are the only things that are topical, what room is there for
interesting discussions?

Oct 22 '08 #3
In article <sl*******************@nospam.invalid>,
Antoninus Twink <no****@nospam.invalidwrote:
>On 22 Oct 2008 at 0:35, timer wrote:
>In the years past, there used to very interesting discussions in c.l.c

But now, topics are not as interesting anymore.

What happened?

In a word: Heathfield.

He and his chums have made the group increasingly inward-looking and
hostile to newcomers, and set such narrow bounds on topicality that most
working C programmers have no reason to hang around and get the ISO
Standard stuffed down their throat every time they open their mouth.

Or to put it another way: if the return type of main() and the behavior
of i=i++; are the only things that are topical, what room is there for
interesting discussions?
Don't be so narrow minded. How could you forget "(not) casting the
return value of malloc()" ?

P.S. Thanks for reminding me of what the "third thing" is (the "i=i++;"
thing). It had slipped my mind.

Oct 22 '08 #4
user923005 wrote:
Also, glancing over the credits in the C-FAQ ...
These guys hardly ever, if at all, post here:
a lot of these folk were involved with C in the eighties or earlier.
Many of them have probably aged somewhat since then, got families, other
interests, moved away from C entirely, even possibly died. You can't
stop change.
Oct 22 '08 #5

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