Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: [OT] Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:56:22 -0700 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <20161025071804.3dd3d547@maxa-pc.cpe.bvcom.net> <20161025164837.5e8cb175@maxa-pc.cpe.bvcom.net> <20161025173559.2b2c3859@maxa-pc.cpe.bvcom.net> <926ca13e-b561-44f6-8385-705eaef5ba00@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6f57f3023f7434c61f7dba030433622e"; logging-data="28481"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18l8Ju4QWarr3EtVKgQz3ku" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XaKhyb1rWPTcO4zq1YAYVTS0OQY= sha1:KUQtCZkyZc27dx+VTXkhEvZji8M= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:95767 "Mr. Man-wai Chang" writes: [...] > But I am NOT going that way off-topic. I am talking about things, > libraries, devices.... that could be addressed by C programming > language. For example, could we talk about Raspberry Pi here? 5 minutes after this post, you posted a followup on this thread about dreams, ghosts, witchcraft, and Jesus. You ask about topicality, but you show no sign of caring about it. We could talk about C programming for the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi itself is not the C programming language, so discussions not involving C would be off-topic. Is that not obvious? [...] > I think comp.programming is the parent node of comp.lang.c! It isn't. If it's not about the C programming language, it doesn't belong here. And if you continue doing what you're doing, you will join the other trolls in my killfile. (I recently sent you an e-mail message; please read it.) -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org 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"