jperry@sri-unix.arpa.UUCP (05/28/87)
You're right, Doug. I'll 'fess up. I misscanned the code for strcpy() in K
& R --- it really does agree with the Standard C Library version where the
destination string is the first parameter (I guess since "t" follows "s" I
assumed "s" to be the source string in K & R's example). Of course, this
mistake, which has NOTHING to do with my general criticisms of C, gives
you every right to launch ad hominems at me (I'm a C "illiterate" and I'm
"morally wrong" for expressing my anti-C views). (sic)
It's also quite ethical for you to question my ethics and then call for the
termination of this discussion as "irrelevant" immediately AFTER your recent
magnum opus. You claim that such advocacy as I express is "silly" when, in
fact, your advocacy of C was far more heated (and SLANDEROUS) than my
criticism. It's also more than a bit suspicious that the manager of
INFO-APPLE, who also called for the termination of the discussion, ALSO
WORKS ON THE BRL COMPUTER.
Believe me, I have no intention of continuing this or any other discussion
on INFO-APPLE. It's hard to fight hypocrisy, buddy-ism, and opportunistic
leaping onto mistaken details when they actually have little to do with
the thread of an argument. When these techniques are used to bully people
into silence, it is intolerable.
John Perrygwyn@BRL.ARPA.UUCP (05/29/87)
You really ought to do something about your perceptions of people. Brint Cooper and I have had no discussions about INFO-APPLE or the language debate on it. The C programmers I know did not learn C so they could join a mystical closed club. And so forth.