Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!local2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 13:42:09 -0600 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Newsgroups References: <2a267f27-db20-41c7-98f5-982e967d34cc@googlegroups.com> Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 19:42:08 +0000 Message-ID: <87oaf4th0v.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w99ZjIJbDvKJOn4ZzUvgEv0n578= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-SMmgeQpajkEZWV+6zhEdUzPtQdhRXSDER4PEgJDekavqARGJWK2pSQAO09QA1cW6ypBytbVHU3sQuba!JVfaZFmNyHAabrYsjsRipFGqEhtq4IDptNxmRoK3cFUABU8afBXQeT1fAvG5/eVFKr80 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: 2117 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:75353 gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes: > Regarding my comment about "not the original design", it is my fond belief > that the original design of Usenet and newsgroups - and the way it should > be - is as a peer-to-peer discussion. That is, intelligent, capable people > discussing amongst themselves, in a peer-to-peer fashion. The trouble with that is what you actually end up with is the standards-monkeys debating the exact meaning of non-normative footnotes. It's like theological discussion if you were already in hell. The reason these standards-monkeys are so keen to keep the scope of the newsgroup so narrow (no POSIX, no pthreads, no GC, absolutely no Windows C-API) is because they need to feel like their ability to regurgitate chapter-and-verse marks them out as the smartest guy in the room. They've no interest in questions that permit differences of opinion *Ovt Uv gb Gvz Eragfpu* (see "Malloc() - casting return value of). [Waits for someone to tell them that there's no capital M in malloc()]