Re: Problem with SYS_mount

Sam Joseph wrote:
> Brilliant, just what I was looking for! Thanks.
> 
> I don't understand the silly squabble that devlopped in this thread - 
> this is computer world, not an arts subject... there's no gray area, 
> either something's right (in which case what's the use in saying it's 
> wrong, when this can be easily checked), or it's wrong (in which case 
> just correct it).

     The computer world is a wide one, so to make knowledge
manageable and accessible there must be some amount of
classification and compartmentalization.  A useful library
does not just throw all the books onto the shelves helter-
skelter, but groups related volumes together: cooking
here, woodworking there, history through that door on your
left, and so on.

     You have found yourself among the shelves that are in
theory devoted to the programming language C, but your
question was not about C.  True, it was about a program
fragment expressed in C, but the question was not about C.
(A simple way to see that this is so is to note that from
the point of view of the C language there was nothing at
all wrong with the fragment you posted; whatever problem
you were having was therefore not a C problem but something
else.)  You have, as it were, searched the English Grammar
shelves for help assembling your gas grill: the instructions
are in English, but your troubles in executing them have to
do with the leaky fittings and not with English.

     Finally, the notion that "there's no gray area, either
something's right [...] or it's wrong" is one you will grow
out of as you gain some experience.  Context has more
im****tance than you give it credit for.

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