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Re: [OT] What can we talk about here?

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"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:
> On 6/11/2016 10:25 PM, BartC wrote:
>> A lot of languages copied C's {,} brace style. So they all look like C
>> at first glance. (Although oddly, C itself does not always insist on them.)
>>
>> This is all great if you're a fan of {,}. If not then it's a little
>> depressing as eventually all languages will use {,}, and not just
>> because you can't tell which is which!
>
> BTW, remember the story of Babylon in the Old Testament, about God using 
> languages to divide people so that they distrusted each others and 
> killed themselves?
>
> OK, I don't wanna go way off-topic before some guardians walked in. :)

Many readers will likely not be interested in what I'm about to say.
I encourage them to stop reading now.

There are no guardians, just individual participants who would like
to use this newsgroup for its intended purpose, discussing the C
programming language, without too much noise.

Think of comp.lang.c as a meeting where a bunch of people have gotten
together to discuss a certain topic.  (This isn't a perfect analogy,
but bear with me.)  Some of us have been here for a very long time.
We're here because we want to discuss that topic.  We've always had
a few people trying to disrupt the discussion, but we've generally
dealt with them reasonably well by ignoring them.

Just recently, *you've* walked into the room, with no experience
participating in the meeting, and started talking.  You've engaged
with the people trying to disrupt the conversation, sometimes
by asking them to stay on topic (while the experienced members
repeatedly ask you not to do that because we know it doesn't help),
and sometimes engaging with them on whatever nonsense they want to
talk about.  Meanwhile, the rest of us are asking you to either
participate in the discussion we came here for or to be quiet.
I have done so both publicly and via e-mail.

Perhaps you're just lacking in self-control.  Perhaps you think
you provide enough entertainment value to justify the noise you're
creating while the rest of us are trying to have serious discussions.
But in fact, you are simply creating noise, and I see no real
difference between you and the blatant trolls.

And, perhaps just as bad as all that, you're *boring*.

*PLONK*

In case you don't understand what that means, I am adding you to my
killfile.  (Technically it's a scorefile, but that doesn't matter.)
I am configuring my newsreader so it will no longer show me anything
you say.  I will not see anything you post unless someone else
quotes you in a followup (which, frankly, I hope nobody does).
If you start posting thoughtful and topical articles, I will
neither see them nor reply to them.  I am not being a "guardian",
I am simply adjusting my own personal view of this newsgroup to
exclude you, because in my considered opinion comp.lang.c will be
better without you than with you.

If you continue, you will still hurt this newsgroup, because other
readers who haven't chosen to killfile you will still see your
useless noise.  I still hope you'll reconsider, but this is the
last time I'll try to persuade you to do so.

Buh-bye.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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[OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 22:09 +0800
  Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-11-05 14:14 -0400
    Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 16:04 +0800
    Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 16:15 +0800
    Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2016-11-06 19:31 +0100
      Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-11-06 14:07 -0500
        Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? Luuk <luuk@invalid.lan> - 2016-11-06 20:17 +0100
          Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-11-06 11:56 -0800
          Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-11-06 15:01 -0500
            Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-11-06 20:32 +0000
            Here or in a RPi dedicated forum? (Was: [OT] What can we talk about here?) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-11-07 16:08 +0000
              Re: Here or in a RPi dedicated forum? Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 19:31 +0000
                Re: Here or in a RPi dedicated forum? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-11-07 21:17 +0000
                Re: Here or in a RPi dedicated forum? "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-11-07 19:13 -0500
                Re: Here or in a RPi dedicated forum? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-08 10:17 +0800
        Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 16:31 +0800
  Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 06:00 -0800
  Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 06:06 -0800
    Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 22:08 +0800
      Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 06:22 -0800
        Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 22:31 +0800
        Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 06:37 -0800
          Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 06:53 -0800
            Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 23:06 +0800
              Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 07:12 -0800
                Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 23:19 +0800
                Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 07:22 -0800
                Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 23:24 +0800
                Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 23:26 +0800
                Inheritance and single point of failure "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 23:28 +0800
                Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 07:20 -0800
                Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 23:22 +0800
                Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 07:29 -0800
                [OT] "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 23:36 +0800
                Re: [OT] fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 07:46 -0800
                Re: [OT] fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 07:49 -0800
                Re: [OT] Time to sleep! "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 23:51 +0800
                Re: [OT] Time to sleep! "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 23:52 +0800
                Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 07:58 -0800
                Re: [OT] "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-07 01:37 +0800
      Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-11-06 14:25 +0000
        Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 22:33 +0800
        Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2016-11-06 22:35 +0800
          Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-11-06 12:16 -0800
        Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-11-06 20:02 +0000
  Re: [OT] What can we talk about here? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-11-13 09:57 -0800

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