Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Julio Di Egidio Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: So You Think You Can Const? Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:35:31 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <20250107130809.661@kylheku.com> <87a5c15ob0.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87ldvk4wu7.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <875xmn4lmy.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <8634hr8muh.fsf@linuxsc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:35:33 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2563c1350cfe2ddd1cd2f0f3cf044725"; logging-data="3106881"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19NyIyeMX5eLFH/j+gSqd8QXCxuzqtAqg4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:26YZ5J1f6bR6+l/9buLBK7lW1FI= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Bytes: 3551 On 15/01/2025 09:29, David Brown wrote: > On 15/01/2025 03:15, James Kuyper wrote: >> On 1/14/25 17:20, James Kuyper wrote: >> ... >>> I certainly remember him, which is why I could easily believe that he >>> might accuse you of being possessed by the devil. However, I don't >>> remember him actually doing so. Since he spent a lot of time in my >>> killfile, that's not exactly unlikely. >> >> I had considerable trouble finding a message that I think is the basis >> for what you said. > > James, I am sure you mean well, but I really don't think we need to drag > this up here.  I mentioned that old accusation as a humorous comparison > of absurd are over-the-top insults that I have seen over the years in > Usenet.  If I had imagined for a moment that someone would take it as a > serious task to dig through archives and expand on it here in one of the > rare topical threads in comp.lang.c, I would not have mentioned it. > > Of course I am not the slightest bit bothered by either that old > accusation or Julio's current ones.  And in both cases I do not think I > wrote things that justified such reactions.  (I /have/ written things in > the past that have justified angry reactions - I am not always as polite > or considerate as I should be.) > > So please forget that I ever brought that up, and drop this line of > posting here on Usenet, for the sake of everyone else.  If you want to > discuss it more, you know my email address is valid. You PIECE OF SHIT, you were pumped by Ben Becarisse, but what's happened here eventually was mostly *your* doing. I won't forget this one either, you piece of shit. -Julio