Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { }) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 19:43:26 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <87a58mqt2o.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> <20250413072027.219@kylheku.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 04:43:28 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="bb0ad030d9f646f3dbdb3db6a34f03be"; logging-data="3027489"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18SfBr9qnbH1jxoqvY81WYTG7miIZIuM7M=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:MEWaFaty+KWkOo50vuep7KzLGfU= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3536 On 4/19/2025 12:36 PM, bart wrote: > On 19/04/2025 20:15, James Kuyper wrote: >> On 19.04.2025 00:27, bart wrote: >>> On 18/04/2025 19:10, James Kuyper wrote: >> ... >>>> If all you can do is "hope for the best", you're doing it wrong. It's >>>> your job to ensure that they are not arbitrary unrelated expressions, >>>> but correctly related expressions, and that's no different from your >>>> responsibility for all of the other expressions that make up your >>>> program. >> ... >>>> If you find that problematic, you shouldn't be programming in >>>> any language, but certainly not in C. >>> >>> I see it didn't take you long to get to the personal insult. What is it >>> with this group? >> >> You are constantly complaining about how difficult you find it to be to >> deal with various features of C that most C programmers have little or >> no trouble dealing with. > > >> How could I possibly justify concluding that >> the problem lies anywhere other than in your own abilities? > > Did I say I find it difficult? I said the feature was: Poor, Crude, > Primitive, Error prone, Hard to grok, a PITA to write, among other things. Ouch! Chalk one up to Murphy's law, shit happens and when it occurs the toast always lands jelly side down. Well, shit. Also a smith and wesson always beats four aces. Debug some crazy race infested mutex shit, well, you might start to think, whats the point! argh. lol. A person says a broadcast us better than a single signal, well,,, drink up! [...]