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Re: pointers and pointing

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On 04/22/2014 01:51 AM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
> Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:25:03 -0400, "Bill Cunningham"
>> <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote:
>  
>>> I don't know Barry the thing about clc is that when you ask a 
>>> question and 3 people respond you will get 3 different answers. 
>>> And people will lie to you 
>  
>> When you ask a poorly worded question, you should expect a variety of
>> answers since people will make different assumptions about what you
>> really meant.
> 
> I have known people to give unusual answers when people ask what
> look like homework questions. Not usually wrong, but not always
> completely useful.

In my experience, completely useless and even seriously wrong code is
not an unusual response when someone asks us to do their homework for them.

This should not be confused with proper requests for help with homework,
including explanations of what the poster has already tried to do, and
explanations of what it is they don't understand about why it didn't
work. Such questions generate lots of sincerely helpful responses.

> But I don't remember any such misleading answers in this thread.

I can't remember anyone doing anything like that when answering Bill.
The most plausible explanation for Bill that assumes he is a troll, also
implies that he actually understands C far better than he pretends to,
which would render such responses pointless. Those responses are for
lazy clueless newbies, not trolls.
-- 
James Kuyper

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pointers and pointing "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-21 13:57 -0400
  Re: pointers and pointing Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2014-04-21 11:58 -0700
    Re: pointers and pointing "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-21 15:09 -0400
      Re: pointers and pointing buja <buja66@gmail.com> - 2014-04-21 12:44 -0700
    Re: pointers and pointing gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-04-21 20:28 +0000
      Re: pointers and pointing "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2014-04-21 15:43 -0500
        Re: pointers and pointing Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2014-04-22 10:28 -0400
      Re: pointers and pointing ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-21 16:25 -0500
      Re: pointers and pointing Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2014-04-21 15:14 -0700
        Re: pointers and pointing James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-04-21 18:41 -0400
          Re: pointers and pointing gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-04-21 22:48 +0000
      Re: pointers and pointing jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2014-04-22 00:22 +0200
    Re: pointers and pointing "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-21 18:25 -0400
      Re: pointers and pointing Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2014-04-21 20:56 -0700
        Re: pointers and pointing glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2014-04-22 05:51 +0000
          Re: pointers and pointing James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-04-22 07:38 -0400
        Re: pointers and pointing David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-04-22 09:16 +0200
        Re: pointers and pointing "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-22 09:37 -0400
          Re: pointers and pointing Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com> - 2014-04-22 15:00 +0100
          Re: pointers and pointing Ken Brody <kenbrody@spamcop.net> - 2014-04-22 10:36 -0400
            Re: pointers and pointing "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-22 14:09 -0400
              Re: pointers and pointing Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-04-22 22:40 +0100
              Re: pointers and pointing Richard <rgrdev_@gmail.com> - 2014-04-23 00:05 +0100
              Re: pointers and pointing Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2014-04-22 16:08 -0700
                Re: pointers and pointing "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-23 22:19 -0400
            Re: pointers and pointing "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-22 14:22 -0400
            Re: pointers and pointing "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2014-04-22 14:24 -0400
              Re: pointers and pointing buja <buja66@gmail.com> - 2014-04-22 13:12 -0700

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