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From: Bart <bc@freeuk.com>
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Subject: Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:58:53 +0100
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On 16/09/2024 04:05, Tim Rentsch wrote:
> Ben Bacarisse <ben@bsb.me.uk> writes:
> 
>> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>
>>> And yes I'm still committed to that symmetry.  I'ved used it for countless
>>> language implementations.  C is little different other than it has a
>>> 700-page standard that suggests a recommended model of how it's supposed to
>>> work.
>>>
>>> You can't really use that to bash me about the head with and maintain that
>>> all my ideas about language implementation are wrong because C views
>>> assignment in its own idiosyncratic manner.
>>
>> I don't want to bash you about the head, but what C says about
>> assignment has /always/ been the point, and your implementation of C
>> will be wrong if you don't follow the rules about C's assignments.  You
>> /know/ the LH and RH side of a C assignment have different constraints
>> (you have said so yourself) yet you persist in defending your original
>> claim that what is needed on the two sides "is exactly the same".  You
>> must, surely, be arguing simply for the fun of it.
>>
>> Tim suggests that there is communication failure here -- that you have
>> not expressed what you mean clearly enough.  That may be so, but I can't
>> see how to interpret what you've written in any other way.
> 
> I'm coming around to the point of view that Bart isn't really
> interested in communicating.  He seems not to listen to what
> other people say, and either he can't be bothered to say what
> he really means or he says things in a personal idiosyncratic
> vernacular that no one else understands.  I'm okay with people
> who are making a sincere effort to communicate and are just
> having trouble doing so.  With Bart though more and more the
> impression I get is that he isn't really trying because at
> some level he doesn't care if he communicates or not.

Trying to communicate in this Standards-obsessed newsgroup is like 
trying to have a meaningful discussion with Bible-bashers.