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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: usecases of void foo(char **b) {}
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:

> On 03/11/2016 20:21, Gareth Owen wrote:
>> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 03/11/2016 06:07, Gareth Owen wrote:
>>>> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> I am not however spreading disinformation just because my view of C is
>>>>> wider than your narrow one.
>>>>
>>>> Have you considered, even for a second, the possibility that you might
>>>> be wrong?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Go back and show me what I said that was wrong.
>>
>> That doesn't answer the question.
>
> Have you ever considered that I might know what I'm talking about?

That doesn't answer the question.

> And yes I have been wrong sometimes but because /I have implemented
> everything I've talked about/, I would soon have found out if
> something didn't work or if some new concepts I was trying to put into
> practice were fundamentally flawed.

Who has had more success as a designer of languages - you or Kernighan &
Richie? What does that tell you about C's "fundamental flaws".