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From: Gabriel Rolland <gabrielrolland@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Effect of CPP tags
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:42:14 +0100
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:

> On 15/01/2024 09:51, Gabriel Rolland wrote:
>> bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>> [snip]
>>>> I'm new here, so please forgive my ignorance. What's yours?
>>>> I suppose what I'm asking is: What exactly is your goal here, Bart?
>>>
>>> What is anyone's goal here?
>>>
>>> This newsgroup is just a bunch of old-timers who mainly discuss the
>>> finer points of the C standard, although the group has been more or
>>> less dead for the past couple of years.
>> Hello there, everyone, this is actually my first post on Usenet at
>> all. I started configuring and reading it like two days ago. It is not
>> really a test since I'd like to reply to some content here. 
>
> Welcome to the group - and as a new C programmer!
>
> We don't /just/ discuss the finer points of the C standards, but that
> is definitely something we do cover, and you'll be hard pushed to find
> a discussion forum with more standards experts than you find here.  We
> are happy to discuss all kinds of aspects of C programming, but if you
> need platform-specific help or help with particular libraries, it's
> not often a good place - but we might be able to suggest alternatives.
>
> It's worth starting a new thread if you have something specific - a
> lot of people will already have marked this thread as pointless and
> ignored!
>
>> This group
>> seems rather lively, I guess it is partly thanks to you, Bart.
>
> Oh, Bart does not lack in enthusiasm and energy for his postings :-)
> He is, however, often confusingly inaccurate about C.  Ask some
> questions, and you'll quickly see which regulars give answers that
> work for your needs (some are better at getting the exact details
> right, others are better at explaining in layman's terms).
>
>> 
[snip]

Thank you for the welcoming words and the quick intro :)