Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard 1524

David Wagner

GIVE AN ANECDOTE.

That's a bit more in the political arena. The "bit gods" that I have met (and I'll expand that so I can include myself as a technical "goto guy" in some areas) would tend to explain things to other bit-gods, but not be particularly forthcoming to individuals who don't implicitly understand what they're nattering on about.

This is not social snobbery, but along the lines of

"those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, criticize"

(there's a "those who can't criticize..." too but I can't recall what it is)

Umm, unless you're a "bit god" yourself, how are you qualified to argue with one ? I'd think you'd have to be in the ballpark to begin with ("bit demigod" or something).

I'll refer you to 2 occasions on which I asked simple questions of you:

a) you said "oh, my opinion is strewn out among all the posts in this thread"

b) on occasion where I stated I don't do C you proceeded to answer my post with a page's worth of C programming.

I think you may have misread-misunderstood a post or two. I'm not sure what she goes on about is even teachable in a 4-5 year program. But I think DJB's sample course doesn't belong in a university CS specialist program.