Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 00:11:45 06/04/00
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On June 03, 2000 at 11:35:30, KarinsDad wrote: >On June 02, 2000 at 18:49:00, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>I read KD's original post and thought it was fine, mainly because I assumed KD >>was working on his chess program and ran into a problem. Okay, I really >>wouldn't like to see 100 messages about C++ specifics, but I don't have a >>problem with someone who is writing chess (or similar, e.g. othello) software >>asking for some help. >> >>Nonetheless, it's probably true that KD could get better feedback in >>comp.lang.c++.moderated. There have already been a few things said that, to the >>best of my knowledge, are clearly incorrect. But I think that all I'll say at >>this point is that the ISO C++ standard specifies proper behaviour, that some >>compilers in common use today are very far from compliance, and that people >>using those compilers shouldn't make claims about the capabilities and/or >>limitations of C++ based upon what their compiler does or doesn't do. >> >>Dave > > >I agree that there should not be a whole bunch of messages on this topic. > >However, I contend two things: > >1) There were 4 posts on the topic, and now this is the 2nd post on the >moderation of whether it is topical or not. A total of 6 posts when all I wanted >was to see if anyone could solve the problem for my chess program. We have >people go off with jokes for a half dozen posts virtually every week here where >their jokes have NOTHING to do with a chess program. Please feel free to send moderator email if a long joke thread appears and bothers you. None of us moderators are reading all of the posts. Sometimes, when no moderator email is arriving, I don't read CCC for a few days in a row. The rest of your post read to me as if you were angry about what I wrote. Given that I commented that I thought your original post was fine, I'm a bit puzzled about that, but <shrug>. Dave
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