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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 08:32:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 17:25:27 +0000
Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> wibbled:
>On 03/03/2025 16:56, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:39:58 -0500
>> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wibbled:
>>> On 3/3/25 11:24, geodandw wrote:
>>>> On 3/3/25 10:22, James Kuyper wrote:
>>>>> On 03/03/2025 08:13, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>>> ....
>>>>>>   That sounds like a C issue to me.
>>>>>
>>>>> If it were a C problem, then the C source code that produced the problem
>>>>> should have been shown. It's hard to debug code that you can't see.
>>>> Why is this group so intolerant?
>>>
>>> Because what you call intolerance, we call topicality. When you post a
>>> message to a group where it is on-topic, the message gets seen and
>> 
>> Only an arrogant idiot would think that errors on linking object files
>> generated by a C compiler are not relevant in a C language group.
>
>James Kuyper has been posting here for decades, and has helped 

Oh well, in that case I bow down in front of his magnificence, he must not
be contradicted!

>many hundreds, or more likely thousands, of C programmers to 
>better understand the C language. A genuine language expert, he 
>deserves to be treated better than to be called an arrogant 
>idiot, especially when the abuser has no discernible track record 
>of having ever helped anyone with high quality C advice.
>
>That may be because "Muttley" doesn't seem even to know what the 
>C language /is/.

Compilation is a fundamental part of the process of programming in C whether 
you and Kuyper like it or not.