Angel
5/19/2011 11:08:00 PM
On 2011-05-19, Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
> Believe it or not, it was entirely a coincidence that I went off on my
> "Angels on pins" rant in a thread involving a poster going by the nym of
> "Angel". Cute it was, but entirely accidental, I assure you.
It's okay, I took no offense. I thought it was funny the first time, but
it got old rather quick. And I'm a bit on a hair trigger when it comes
to spam, as I mostly hang out on news.admin.net-abuse.*, being an admin
myself.
> I have been of the opinion for many months now that Kiki's postings generally
> have all the knowledge advancing qualities of that famous debate within
> that other fine font of knowledge, the Catholic Church. Today, in the
> thread about bug free code, he seemed to be outdoing even himself in the art
> of giving nonsensical (and "Duh...!") type answers.
Well, that whole thread got kind of silly, with discussions on the most
compliant way to implement /bin/true. :-)
I have Asperger's syndrome, which may make me seem a bit blunt at times
as I tend to speak my thoughts with little or no subtlety, but I really
mean no offense.
--
"C provides a programmer with more than enough rope to hang himself.
C++ provides a firing squad, blindfold and last cigarette."
- seen in comp.lang.c