XPost: comp.theory   
   From: tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk   
      
   On 18/10/2025 16:53, vallor wrote:   
      
   > You aren't posting about C.   
   >   
   > And I notice you crossposted this article (which has nothing to do with   
   > C) and didn't set the followup-to (as you claimed you were going to do).   
      
   His reply was an honest enquiry about the proper use of comp.lang.c.   
      
   How about you paste into your reply to him on comp.lang.c a copy of the   
   big-8 steering board's rules for comp.lang.c. You posted nothing but a   
   demand for personal satisfaction. He might not even yet know what the   
   authoritative comp.lang.c rules are nor their normative location. If   
   everyone demands their preference instead of telling each other the   
   actual rules and where to find them and their authority then sooner or   
   later the newsgroup will die because it's impossible to satisfy everyone   
   perfectly ... I just looked at the contents of comp.lang.c, it looks   
   like that's happened since olcott is almost the only person starting   
   topics these days.   
      
   If the comp.lang.c charter allows a weekly digest of the interpretation   
   of a C program vs the manner of an English language specification and   
   the abilities of current LLMs to report on C programs and their   
   motivating specifications then it would be okay, wouldn't it?   
      
   I don't use comp.lang.c much any more but if it did then a weekly digest   
   of attempts to get detailed knowledge from a group topical for the   
   specific C program and the terminology relating to it would seem   
   appropriate to me.   
      
      
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