Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard

From: Alan Balmer (albalmer_at_att.net)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:27:44 -0700

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:14:38 +0000 (UTC), daw@taverner.cs.berkeley.edu
(David Wagner) wrote:

>>You keep insisting that our evaluations are unfounded. Do you always
>>dismiss years of experience as worthless and should be avoided
>>at all costs?
>
>Yes, I do, when those evaluations are based on no relevant data.
>And I think I am right to. I don't care how many years of experience
>you have; if your reasoning is fallacious, it is fallacious.
>
>>It looks like you're swallowing Berstein's attitude
>>without any examination of assumptions.
>
>Naah; as I said, I don't care whether Bernstein's attitude is "right" or
>"wrong". Even assuming that he is "wrong" and you are "right" about the
>proper attitude towards 36-bit ints, you still lack grounds to conclude
>whether he is a good teacher or not.

Are we to assume that he teaches what he does not believe?
>
>And even if you knew he is a bad teacher, it is irrelevant to his argument
>and offensive. I find that unfortunate. I want Bernstein to continue
>posting-- even if some think he is wrong or heretical from time to time,
>he also has useful insights from time to time.

Doesn't everyone?

BTW, please do not remove attributions. I am assuming that this is in
reply to jmfbahciv, but I shouldn't have to analyze the message
headers to verify that. 

-- 
Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
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