On Jun 30, 3:38am, Eberhard Schefold <eberhard.schef...@de.bosch.com>
wrote:
> Marcus wrote:
> > thanks for the guys, seriously. i'm just trying to point out,
> > that communication is a lot easier when the listener tries to
> > understand the meaning behind things, rather than dismissing the
> > entirety if an i wasn't dotted or a t wasn't crossed. i think yall get
> > what i'm saying... or did i miss an apostophe somewhere?
>
> These guys were trying to you, and they can't if you don't tell
> them what the problem is. The misunderstanding is on your own part if
> you regard this as nitpicking. They were asking what the problem is,
> since your initial code obviously was not apt to demonstrate the problem.
>
> If a stranger came to you on the street and asked you "Where's Zelig
> Street?", and you're answering "There is no Zelig Street here, are you
> sure you got the right name?", and he started complaining over your
> manners, that you're not listening, etc., what would you think?

I was clear. I asked what I wasn't understanding about how strcmp
works, specifically with char*'s. I gave an example using foo, but
flubbed a quote and print instead of printf. No one until AFTER I
quipped that those were nitpicky errors tried to actually answer my
question. It IS nitpicking, just like it would be nitpicking for me to
say that Mike makes no sense because he accidently used f002 instead
of foo2... it's stupid for me to INTENTIONALLY not try and understand
what he's saying about using string's instead of char*'s. I looked
past the error and understood what he was trying to say, this is how
basic communication works with simple subjects. If you want to make
things COMPLICATED and TENSE, then yea, pretending you don't
understand is the right way to go about things.

Your analogy isn't what happend, more like, the stranger asked where
zelig street was with a thick Mexican accent, and I answered, "learn
how to speak english, i can't understand you"... even though I know
exactly what he was saying... it's just, well, any Mexican who can't
pronunciate perfectly shouldn't be in this country, right?