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Re: (Not) discussing C-like toy languages

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First post2015-09-20 19:31 +0000
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  Re: (Not) discussing C-like toy languages raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-09-20 19:31 +0000
    Re: (Not) discussing C-like toy languages James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-09-20 16:09 -0400
      Re: (Not) discussing C-like toy languages Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> - 2015-09-21 18:51 -0500
    Re: (Not) discussing C-like toy languages Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-09-20 21:27 +0100

#70985 — Re: (Not) discussing C-like toy languages

Fromraltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos)
Date2015-09-20 19:31 +0000
SubjectRe: (Not) discussing C-like toy languages
Message-ID<55ff079f.35002921@news.xs4all.nl>
Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:

> On 08/09/2015 20:31, Noob wrote:
> > On 08/09/2015 19:11, James Kuyper wrote:
> >
> >>  On 09/08/2015 11:55 AM, Noob wrote:
> >>
> >>>  Damn right! No true Scotsman would ever be considered a "reg".
> >>
> >>  I don't know - David Brown posts here pretty regularly - 1467 messages
> >>  since May 2012, according to Google Groups. There's probably other
> >>  Scotsmen here - he's just the first one I found with a Google Groups
> >>  search for "Scottish".
> >
> > Thing is, I don't think David is a *true* Scotsman!
> 
> He isn't. A true Scotsman's surname starts with Mac. David's doesn't. QED.

Where _is_ Mark McIntyre?

Richard

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#70987

FromJames Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Date2015-09-20 16:09 -0400
Message-ID<55FF1274.9000402@verizon.net>
In reply to#70985
On 09/20/2015 03:31 PM, Richard Bos wrote:
> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On 08/09/2015 20:31, Noob wrote:
>>> On 08/09/2015 19:11, James Kuyper wrote:
>>>
>>>>  On 09/08/2015 11:55 AM, Noob wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  Damn right! No true Scotsman would ever be considered a "reg".
>>>>
>>>>  I don't know - David Brown posts here pretty regularly - 1467 messages
>>>>  since May 2012, according to Google Groups. There's probably other
>>>>  Scotsmen here - he's just the first one I found with a Google Groups
>>>>  search for "Scottish".
>>>
>>> Thing is, I don't think David is a *true* Scotsman!
>>
>> He isn't. A true Scotsman's surname starts with Mac. David's doesn't. QED.
> 
> Where _is_ Mark McIntyre?

According to Google Groups, his last contribution to comp.lang.c
occurred on 2009-10-22. A general Google search provides too many hits
to make it easy to decide which one is "our" Mark McIntyre. Does anyone
know something sufficiently personal about him to narrow down the search?

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#71057

FromMorris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com>
Date2015-09-21 18:51 -0500
Message-ID<mtq560$okp$1@speranza.aioe.org>
In reply to#70987
On 9/20/15 3:09 PM, James Kuyper wrote:
> On 09/20/2015 03:31 PM, Richard Bos wrote:
>> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/09/2015 20:31, Noob wrote:
>>>> On 08/09/2015 19:11, James Kuyper wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>   On 09/08/2015 11:55 AM, Noob wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>   Damn right! No true Scotsman would ever be considered a "reg".
>>>>>
>>>>>   I don't know - David Brown posts here pretty regularly - 1467 messages
>>>>>   since May 2012, according to Google Groups. There's probably other
>>>>>   Scotsmen here - he's just the first one I found with a Google Groups
>>>>>   search for "Scottish".
>>>>
>>>> Thing is, I don't think David is a *true* Scotsman!
>>>
>>> He isn't. A true Scotsman's surname starts with Mac. David's doesn't. QED.
>>
>> Where _is_ Mark McIntyre?

Mark D. McIntyre - Cambridge perhaps.

-- 
Morris Dovey
http://www.iedu.com/Solar/

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#70990

FromRichard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Date2015-09-20 21:27 +0100
Message-ID<mtn4ol$qr0$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#70985
On 20/09/15 20:31, Richard Bos wrote:
> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> On 08/09/2015 20:31, Noob wrote:
>>> On 08/09/2015 19:11, James Kuyper wrote:
>>>
>>>>   On 09/08/2015 11:55 AM, Noob wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>   Damn right! No true Scotsman would ever be considered a "reg".
>>>>
>>>>   I don't know - David Brown posts here pretty regularly - 1467 messages
>>>>   since May 2012, according to Google Groups. There's probably other
>>>>   Scotsmen here - he's just the first one I found with a Google Groups
>>>>   search for "Scottish".
>>>
>>> Thing is, I don't think David is a *true* Scotsman!
>>
>> He isn't. A true Scotsman's surname starts with Mac. David's doesn't. QED.
>
> Where _is_ Mark McIntyre?

Scotland? ;-)

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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