Re: Newsgroups ARE entertainment (Was: Dropping C)

From	James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Newsgroups ARE entertainment (Was: Dropping C)
Date	2018-10-02 19:30 -0400
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On 10/02/2018 03:34 PM, already5chosen@yahoo.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 2, 2018 at 9:00:22 PM UTC+3, Ike Naar wrote:
>> On 2018-10-02, already5chosen@yahoo.com <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wrote:
...
>>> Sturgeon's law says that ninety percent of everything is crap.
>>> I am afraid that it does not apply to the realm of programming languages.
>>> Off by one order of magnitude at least.
>>
>> Which way?
>> Do you mean that, in the realm of programming languages, 9 percent
>> of everything is crap? Or do you mean that, in the realm of programming
>> languages, 900 percent of everything is crap?
> 
> I mean that in the realm of programming languages 1 percent is not crap.

The only number mentioned in your message was ninety percent. If you
meant that the residual ten percent was off by an order of magnitude,
you should have at least mentioned that number directly.

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Newsgroups *ARE* entertainment (Was: Dropping C) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2018-10-02 14:06 +0000
  Re: Newsgroups *ARE* entertainment (Was: Dropping C) Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2018-10-02 15:28 +0100
    Re: Newsgroups *ARE* entertainment (Was: Dropping C) nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2018-10-02 15:41 +0000
      Re: Newsgroups *ARE* entertainment (Was: Dropping C) already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2018-10-02 10:13 -0700
        Re: Newsgroups *ARE* entertainment (Was: Dropping C) Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2018-10-02 18:00 +0000
          Re: Newsgroups *ARE* entertainment (Was: Dropping C) already5chosen@yahoo.com - 2018-10-02 12:34 -0700
            Re: Newsgroups *ARE* entertainment (Was: Dropping C) jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-02 23:53 +0200
            Re: Newsgroups *ARE* entertainment (Was: Dropping C) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2018-10-02 19:30 -0400

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