Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 13:17:27 -0500 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: And they say C is obscure References: <20170409-035940.754.0@Peabody.ssl.astraweb.com> <87pofcegog.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87lgq0ckrn.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <176287ff-7977-420e-ad58-9f92fd29037d@googlegroups.com> <1df0c26b-87ac-4f3a-b970-ad202d3d2f67@googlegroups.com> <87inkan1iv.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87zidmlega.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <2dcf8ebf-ba99-4e41-88cb-c1daed2e59cf@googlegroups.com> <87inkalb95.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <79739d7e-fc24-4d06-9bfa-8d9db0647f16@googlegroups.com> <87y3t6ujsy.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <466698bd-b99b-4ce6-ac3d-d8ba14087ecc@googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 19:17:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87ink9m154.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:duE+foQuJ9ozO+htwqWS0/zd6lI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 11 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-Ke40S0Yl36DODsZjZOPnafKyYnpzWeyANd5/ZpIafbUGKhNK7quPs3GpO5LvqlULft7BcJGYcTeh8au!Z24ptyU7mApa1FZuD8Zt5HIo9Fr1+c9XCzk1ZEPENNxdSGjvhGtK3eeA/Udx6vyEm4xgBjA= 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: 2213 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:111650 Keith Thompson writes: > If I may summarize the discussion: > > Malcolm claims that his "rule of three" is obvious and universally true. > Malcolm is demonstrably wrong. > Malcolm will never acknowledge the possibility that he is wrong. > > I think that pretty much covers it. Gee, I wish I'd pointed that out weeks ago.