Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:12:17 -0600 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: "The long goodbye to C" by Eric Raymond References: <36hPB.16749$Jw1.11281@fx17.am4> <87tvxu18ff.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87shddyc78.fsf@kst-u.example.com> <4ccde6fc-1ced-4182-b92d-202fdf9fa55c@googlegroups.com> <5a8ad8da-ed89-437f-bf55-a3d00e1f7be8@googlegroups.com> <676b4762-9066-4744-b9f3-80ec5b97e019@googlegroups.com> <_vdQB.42382$X11.41767@fx20.am4> Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 21:12:17 +0000 Message-ID: <87efout1la.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WrcRO3X6paAWsjFGHPX1w9Nmvbs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 9 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-OdsVVQAdf8tAASjvr+ydSC6x1bemuePfwwz3HYUmaMhj5FV5CwDcQfwqGdfhCEwEtgktskKgeBG92yr!9HjKse1vPS5tUTyIlOJxwas/r9umfxCbIxdJ4MjfYKVAahi4LZgc6HCYl89y4cZKYLtvQA== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2107 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:123010 Keith Thompson writes: > Please stop pretending not to understand that many C compilers are > non-conforming by default. Please stop pretending not to understand > that a non-fatal warning is a valid response to a syntax error or > constraint violation. Please stop attempting to reason within someone who, as your statements demonstrate you clearly understand, has no desire to be reasoned with.