Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Todd Carnes Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Too bad this group is gone Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 05:06:59 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <4E3F9B9C.7030507@loria.fr> <4e3fe6b5$0$9121$a729d347@news.telepac.pt> <4e401210$0$9122$a729d347@news.telepac.pt> <4E405A22.20006@loria.fr> <9ab95aF6e4U1@mid.uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: uqlV+6kNo2Z0TnMsKGN6tA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:9094 On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:18:02 +0000, Jens Thoms Toerring wrote: [snip] > For one one of the best examples of how this can work try to find > postings by Chris Torek (just as a especially shining example, there > were and are others) to questions in this group) - they are going to be > from a few years back. When he answered a question the answer typically > was really long, going into all kinds of details of how things were > implemen- ted on all kinds of architectures, what pitfalls to look out > for etc. This weren't answers that gave just a solution for the problem > at hand but which told you why certain things work, why others don't and > some others only do so on certain systems. This may be maddening for > someone who doesn't really care why or why not something works and just > wants to get "it done", but for those a bit more interested into solving > problems on their own those answers were invaluable. And I doubt quite a > bit that someone like Chris Torek would fit in well into e.g. > stackoverflow where the emphasis seems to be more on recipes and less on > explanations. I prefer the long and winding Torek-ish answers. :) Todd