Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: alt.comp.lang.borland-delphi,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Oracle/Google demonstrate human beings cannot write 10 lines of code without making a mistake ;) Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 00:04:20 -0700 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: <29308868.1994.1337265697084.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcuc6> <4fb96c52$0$283$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <1behqep563.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net LpSRrqMioFSz59VOIFgdXeFbjj4rWLp5SnO9E0Fcib+6C+DeYVLvZuq4hrYbOw+bQrsB/ZPC8kWIuLlecD4Giw6F0zwxOOW/GmtbeUE+3hLxsu+ze86HrN2Xh/unfcfk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 07:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="PxrNojYyeVcn5NFr7ci3iCNnoEJE2OAltMWmdAN3kesxmFeKHPVALWuh6Pyn9hdLsfu3x5gUeE2xb4bopdyebrK1PxmwQ5H68FE/WV63qLQK9DwXQAMy2fLtaa3RnSNC"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: <1behqep563.fsf@pfeifferfamily.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:c6zb4Frg4EUUKrx6C+nY1K9UAHc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:21111 comp.lang.java.programmer:14714 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Lew writes: >> Keith Thompson wrote: >>> Arne Vajhøj writes: >>>> Skybuck Flying wrote: >>>>> This code is a nice example oh how not to program. >>>>> >>>>> Apperently only a skilled coder/debugger like me seems to be able to >>>>> spot the fallacies in this way too debug-complex code. >>>> >>>> You mean that only a complete clueless coder/debugger >>>> would claim some code contains a bug without reading >>>> the documentation for how it should work. >>> >>> Arne, years of experience have shown that arguing with "Skybuck Flying" >>> is a waste of time. Feel free to waste your time, but please don't >>> waste ours. >> >> How is he to know what wastes your time? That's a judgment only you can make. >> >> He is free to post any response to any poster he chooses. If you don't >> wish to "waste" your time, you don't have to read his responses to >> that poster. Any decent newsreader will organize your view into >> conversations so that you will know which of Arne's posts are likely >> to, in your own, personal, private judgment, waste your time. It is >> not Arne's job to judge posts on your behalf, nor your right to >> curtail his right to respond. > > Sadly, it seems every new person who encounters Skybuck feels the need > to respond to him for a while before finally learning his lesson. And > for reasons that escape me, trying to clue somebody in on what they can > expect is taken as being a Net Cop. Keith didn't try to "clue somebody in", he asked Arne to stop posting because he (Keith) claimed that Arne's responses were wasting his (Keith's) time. There was nothing in Keith's message to suggest that he was offering advice to benefit Arne. So your comment is not relevant. If Keith had evinced any concern whatsoever for Arne, that would have been a different story. Ditto you - I don't see you showing any concern for Arne either, just whining about how people thing someone is a "Net Cop". Furthermore, there are others who read the newsgroup who may benefit from answers to Skyfreak, even if Skyfreak itself does not. So let Arne post what he will. Please. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg