Interesting Topics

[timer]

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

But now, topics are not as interesting anymore.

What happened?

[Chris McDonald]

Re: Interesting Topics

timer <timer@nospam.i nvalidwrites:

>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.

[Antoninus Twink]

Re: Interesting Topics

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?

[Kenny McCormack]

Re: Interesting Topics

In article <slrngftq21.k8o .nospam@nospam. invalid>,
Antoninus Twink <nospam@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.

[Mark McIntyre]

Re: Interesting Topics

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.