Re: lcc first experience

jacob navia said:

> Eric Sosman wrote:
>> Paul Hsieh wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I mean you don't give a crap at all about the point I was making or
>>> what one I was responding to, but you go over the top with some
>>> ridiculously lengthy response about some irrelevant detail when you
>>> just as easily could have pointed out that casting an expression to
>>> void removes its side effect (issue resolved in less than a
>>> sentence).  I accept corrections, not sermons.
>>> [...]
>> 
>>     (void) printf("No side-effects here, nossir!\n");
>> 
> 
> Obvious side effect: the state of stdout is modified!
> That is the only reason why printf exists: to modify the
> state of stdout.

Yes, and that's precisely why he replied in precisely that way. It's
called 
"irony".

> Trying to  be clever you look dumb now...

In trying to attack Eric in this way, you look like someone who can't even

hit the wrong target, let alone the right target.

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