On May 4, 1:45am, Richard Heathfield <r...@see.sig.invalid> wrote:
> apati...@gmail.com said:
>
> > On May 3, 11:47 pm, dj3va...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca.invalid wrote:
>
> <asinine IDE question snipped>
>
> >> The people in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 are probably the best
> >> ones to answer questions like that.
>
> > Here we go again ;-) (Told ya!)
> > Why would I want to go all across town to the "Organic Natural foods
> > store"
> > when I can buy my cup of coffee at 7/11 around the corner?
>
> It seems that when your previous arrogant, hostile, offensive, and
> incidentally off-topic question was met with indifference from everyone
> except our resident trolls, you learned nothing from the experience. Your
> analogy, by the way, is broken. The comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
> newsgroup Dave mentioned is far more like a 7-11 for all MS programming
> questions than comp.lang.c could ever be.
>
> For as long as you continue to fail to understand Usenet, you'll continue
> to get pleasant, smugly sympathetic, and almost always *wrong* answers
> from the group's trolls, and not much else. If you want expert answers,
> ask experts. Expertise in driving the Microsoft IDE is far more likely to
> be shown in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 than it is here.
>
> Incidentally, if you don't already *know* the answer to your question (and
> just about any Notepad power-user does know), you may need to spend a few
> more months or even years using Windows before you're ready to start
> programming for it.
>
> --
> Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk>
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> "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999

Well, I guess I've made my own coffee this time, (but don't tell
anyone that I've used some
tiny bit of half/half cream with it, all natural.- just kidding)