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On 04/22/2014 06:23 PM, Michael Angelo Ravera wrote:
...
> ... If someone is legitimately asking a question, there is
> no need to to belittle them for asking it. ...

There is considerable reason for doubting the legitimacy of Bill
Cunningham's questions. He's been posting messages to comp.lang.c since
at least 2002-06-04 (according to Google Group's admittedly flaky
database), and has been "learning" C the whole time. Those questions
often reflect apparent confusion so deep as to be incoherent; the same
is true of his responses to other people's advice. He's been given
plenty of answers to his questions that were as good as they could be,
given the incoherence of his questions. He's been given lots of good
advice. Yet he's still asking new questions that are essentially the
same as questions he first asked a decade ago.

He has claimed that drugs he has been prescribed inhibit his ability to
learn; apparently those drugs have, among other things, inhibited his
ability to learn how futile it is to attempt to learn C while taking
such drugs. Whether he's legitimately incapable of learning, or some
weird kind of troll, trying to help him is unlikely to cause anything
other than frustration.

You are, of course, free to make your own decision about whether to
bother trying to help him - but I'd recommend making it an informed
decision, by reviewing some of his posting history:
<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topicsearchin/comp.lang.c/authorname$3A%22Bill$20Cunningham%22|sort:date|spell:true>

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memset "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-14 20:32 -0400
  Re: memset "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-14 20:40 -0400
    Re: memset glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-04-15 02:11 +0000
      Re: memset "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-14 22:22 -0400
      Re: memset Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-04-15 21:07 +0100
  Re: memset Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2014-04-14 21:48 -0700
    Re: memset "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-15 09:28 -0400
      Re: memset David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-04-15 16:07 +0200
        Re: memset "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-15 21:03 -0400
          Re: memset "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-15 21:06 -0400
          Re: memset glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-04-16 01:25 +0000
            Re: memset "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-15 21:36 -0400
  Re: memset Michael Angelo Ravera <maravera@prodigy.net> - 2014-04-18 13:50 -0700
    Re: memset Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-04-18 21:04 +0000
    Re: memset "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-20 09:16 -0400
      Re: memset Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com> - 2014-04-20 14:35 +0100
        Re: memset Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-04-20 14:10 +0000
          Re: memset gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-04-21 05:17 +0000
        Re: memset gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-04-20 15:11 +0000
          Re: memset "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-22 14:20 -0400
            Re: memset "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-04-22 14:22 -0500
              Re: memset "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-22 17:33 -0400
              Re: memset Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2014-04-25 12:12 +0000
          Re: memset Michael Angelo Ravera <maravera@prodigy.net> - 2014-04-22 15:23 -0700
            Re: memset James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-04-23 11:39 -0400
              Re: memset "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-24 21:19 -0400

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