Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:40:19 -0600 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Is this valid C? References: <9a61886f-1f50-4b4c-a088-6e378cba9f68@googlegroups.com> <20170224005621.a970f0bb60c226665e0a590c@gmail.com> <73XrA.2256$Jo.1844@fx02.iad> <20170224162041.c697432c2be56cea0c91ecad@gmail.com> <7f79697a-74bd-4cc6-a1dc-2e8fed032283@googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 16:40:19 +0000 Message-ID: <87zihbzgng.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QBH5U2qFTBE4Q7zu2bV7eEfwRq8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 10 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-Rn1uwYtDETqvM48om6uYoECrGn0gjw8fN84tDq2WvBLd+Yq5AIGuTVfALndVE+qgXkkQA1T/U9Am1lR!+Zs8Q3gZk3edT5d2Uz2174EQPm7lVkZVyGiki9XWfhoaQJvY+uyjdbwccrOBu8aslRRC2aQ= 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: 2085 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:104600 David Brown writes: > Simple makefiles are easily to write and easy to comprehend. The only > reason Bart finds them hard is that he is determined to find them > hard, no matter how much effort it takes to remain ignorant. It's the > same attitude he uses to C, especially to arrays. I genuinely believe that Bart would tie his shoelaces together and publically fall on his face in order to demonstrate the superiority of a (wholly theoretical) pair of flip-flops of his own design.