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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: And they say C is obscure
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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:

> Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> writes:
>> Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
>>> bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>>> [...] people here can continue to delude themselves that C's 'for' is
>>>> superior in all ways to those of any other language.
>>>
>>> No one here is saying that, nor do they think it.  What is
>>> the point of misprepresenting that?
>>
>> Trolls gotta troll
>
> You're not helping.

Perhaps not, but do you believe attempting to reason with him is?  Have
you seen any improvement in his behaviour, or his ability to comprehend
that his is not the only valid opinion.  Do you think he posts in this
group to engage in rational discourse, or to provoke people like you?

Answer making reference to i) his claim above and ii) his claim that
failure to support $ in a variable name meant C was "crippled" .

You are free to ignore the myriad of stupid things he's said, but please
don't deny they exist.

At least my response has the benefit of brevity.