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Grant Goodyear wrote:
| Christian Parpart wrote: [Thu Sep 01 2005, 05:45:43PM CDT]
|
|>This just leads me to assume you're not really a coder (wrt native
|>programming languages like C/C++), are you?
|
|
| *Grin*  This sort of condescending attitude is rarely wise when it comes
| to dealing with Gentoo devs.  Not only does it tend to annoy people
| (yes, I'm a tad annoyed by the presumption), but since you're still
| relatively new here the odds are that people know the person you're
| being condescending to better than they know you, and thus it just makes
| you look bad if you're wrong.  Feel free to ask people what I do for a
| living, and whether they suspect that I know the difference between a
| 64-bit pointer and a 32-bit int.
You would be suprised how many people assume they can safely cast
pointers into ints and back.  Thankfully, this is finally on the decline.

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