Why questions don't get answered, or "No, I've already RTFM, tell me the answer!"

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Dec 31 00:35:08 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 16:44, Mike McCarty wrote:
> John Summerfied wrote:
> 
> > I reckon your expectations are a little steep.
> > 
> > I don't think you will find the kind of information you desire comes 
> > with any implementation of any programming language, certainly for 
> > peecees. Have you noticed the proliferation of Windows books?
> 
> Au contraire, mon ami. Borland C, for example, comes with a nice
> tutorial on the C programming language.

But that doesn't tell you anything about the existing system
utilities or how to use them.  Most of the things you might
want to do are already handled nicely by programs included
with the system.  If you only know a low-level tool like
C, you are doomed to re-invent a lot of things unnecessarily.

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com





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