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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Programming Languages
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 15:00:41 +1100
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On 4/11/2024 4:24 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Nov 2024 08:59:36 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 13:13:12 +1100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/11/2024 11:40 pm, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:44:28 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On a sunny day (Fri, 1 Nov 2024 22:50:41 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Nick Hayward
>>>>> <nhayward8990@protonmail.com> wrote in <vg3m01$3e15j$2@dont-email.me>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 19:57:21 +0100, Jeroen Belleman wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 11/1/24 19:04, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>>>>>> You can call me old fashioned, but I still believe there's never been a
>>>>>>>> more elegant computer language than the original K&R C. You can keep
>>>>>>>> the rest; I'll stick with that.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Agreed! All the hand-holding of later versions just get in the way.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jeroen Belleman
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What about C++?
>>>>>
>>>>> It is a crime against humanity!!!
>>>>
>>>> Then we're all agreed: C++ is an abomination in the sight of the Lord
>>>> and the invention of the Devil himself.
>>>
>>> Jan Panteltje and Cursitor Doom are a very small - and poorly informed -
>>> element of our community.
>>>
>>> That they both agree is evidence that the proposition is probably flawed.
>>
>> Or - more likely - that it doesn't conform to your rather bizarre
>> world-view, Bill.
> 
> His world view is that he knows everything and everyone else is stupid
> so deserves insults.

John Larkin is a narcissist, and that has to be read as saying that I 
think I know more that John Larkin (and I sometimes do) and he feels 
insulted when this made obvious.

> That's really sad.

Narcissists have a lot to be sad about. Look at Donald Trump.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney