Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sdchema.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn From: donn@sdchema.UUCP (Donn Seeley) Newsgroups: net.lang.c,net.flame Subject: Re: Re: Numerical C and C++ Message-ID: <151@sdchema.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jun-84 02:42:49 EDT Article-I.D.: sdchema.151 Posted: Fri Jun 1 02:42:49 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Jun-84 06:52:53 EDT References: <1311@mhuxt.UUCP> <5300001@hpdcdb.UUCP> <1945@rlgvax.UUCP> <2811@alice.UUCP> Organization: State Home for the Maturity-Impaired, San Diego Lines: 40 From: brucee@alice.UUCP > According to some papers on the "C++" language done at Bell > (which they're now just calling "C" and are calling what > those of us in the real world know as "C" "old C"), you > can: You seem to know a lot about what's going on here at Bell, Guy. Actually you are as ignorant as the other people who submit twenty news items a day. Actually both of these statements display ignorance: it's not BELL, it's AT&T BELL LABORATORIES. :-> I think brucee@alice's remark is completely uncalled for (at least in net.lang.c; notice that I'm broadening the distribution). This has to be the most foolish statement I have seen in a technical newsgroup in, well, months. If Guy is wrong, say why! Or at least state that details are under discussion and that staffers are not permitted to disclose anything. If Guy is a gadfly, so much the better for the net -- gadflies often stimulate useful comment and debate (but Guy has clearly failed in that here, after getting an answer like brucee's). Although I have not found Guy to be omniscient, he is probably better-informed than most readers of the net, and he is certainly constructive (which is more than I can say for brucee). Since some obnoxiously ad-hominem comment is probably required here to justify involving the net.flame readership, let me say this: Let's hope that brucee is not involved in C development efforts, because his contempt for humanity is a virtual guarantee that none of his software will be usable. How did you like that, sports fans? Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn PS If someone really DOES have something constructive to say about new developments in C, PLEASE say it. Otherwise this whole discussion should promptly be retired to net.flame.