When is a cast not a cast?
Jim Vlcek
vlcek at mit-caf.MIT.EDU
Sat May 20 08:19:39 AEST 1989
John Lawitzke writes about a certain poster who has delighted himself
lately by posting deliberately obnoxious nonsense in response to some
reasoned articles stating why adding two pointers is meaningless:
``This is comp.lang.c most of the articles I've just read from [annoying
poster] (about six) were just noise corrupting the bandwidth of this
newgroup that is more appropriate for mail to the author. I know
this comment should be mailed to [annoying poster], but it is also
appropriate to others posting non-newsgroup related items. TAKE YOUR
FLAMES ELSEWHERE!''
A friend of mine has a small child (about three years old) who has
reached the ``why'' stage - deliberately provoking her parents with
constant ``why's'' just to see how far she can push them. The poster
Mr. Lawitzke is talking about reminds me of this small child.
May I second Mr. Lawitzke's notion? Let's freeze this guy out and not
respond to his articles on addition of pointers any more. I think
that the important points of this issue have long since been settled.
Jim Vlcek (vlcek at caf.mit.edu uunet!mit-caf!vlcek)
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