On 8/16/06, andrew clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:58:28PM -0400, Kerry Thompson wrote: > > > I'm not ready to leave yet, though, because there are enough people who > > genuinely know what they're doing--you, Thomas Hruska, Victor Wagner, Peter > > Nilsson, Paul Herring, Brett McCoy, and some others (forgive me if I left > > out your name). Sharing information with these people, most of whom know > > more about C++ than I, makes the list worthwhile for me. > > Well I have no immediate intention of leaving, but I am wondering out > aloud about what can be done to improve the list, if anything.
I've personally toyed with the idea of rejecting messages with a link to the relevant part of the "Smart Questions" article, instead of allowing them through. Not done it yet though. > If I do leave it one day it will probably be due to me neglecting the > C/C++ languages in favour of higher-level languages - primarily Python. > But staying here keeps my mind active, so I hopefully don't forget how > to do things in C/C++. I've already left day to day C and C++ - I'm doing propriatory languages and also just moved to PHP (group promotion snipped ;) . I'm still here. To be honest, though, this list is still has a remarkably high signal to noise ratio - the apparent problem seems to be that homework questions seem to be considered noise instead of signal. -- PJH Into motorcycles? Need parts? Try www.gissit.com to contact lots of motorcycle breakers - free to use (UK based at the moment) To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
