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[QUOTE="Richard Heathfield, post: 2463276"] Chris Hills said: So anyway, Chris - how's the garden? Sure. Instead, it'll end up as a complete mess, with large quantities of Linux articles (for which comp.os.linux.development.apps already exists), large quantities of Windows articles (for which comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 already exists), and about the same number of questions about the core language as we get now, except that they'll be harder to find, and some of us are too busy to spend time weeding out the junk. So you've come up with a great way to purge this group of C expertise. Nice one. Those of us who /do/ use standard C would like a newsgroup in which we can discuss it. And oh look, we /have/ such a group already. If people want to discuss libs or platforms, there are already lots of newsgroups for doing that. I agree that C99 isn't implemented sufficiently widely to be useful. In fact, the only impact C99 has had on me is to restrict me to the common subset of C90 and C99, against a time when C99 /might/ one day be widely implemented. But C90 is still a viable standard, and whilst I accept that there might be esoteric little corners of the language that some compilers don't get quite right, I keep my code in the mainstream. (For example, I don't care about the rights and wrongs of p = p->next = q; when I know I can write p->next = q; p = p->next; and sidestep the issue completely.) Because C90 is a viable standard, and because I write so much code in C90, I find it very useful to subscribe to a newsgroup where many C experts are ready to discuss and advise on standard C issues. This is the only newsgroup I know of that provides such a service. If it goes down the tubes, I will not be best pleased. And if you open it up to discussions about Unix, Linux, the Mac, Windows, windows, window panes, greenhouses, tomatoes, gardening, garden tools, spades, hearts, diamonds, emeralds, the Irish question, Parnell, Gladstone, Gladstone bags, carpet bags, vacuum cleaners, vacuums, vacuum fluctuations, big bang, little bang, internal combustion, the price of oil, and the problems inherent in invading enough countries to keep a tight control on the supply, then the comp.lang.c group will indeed go down the tubes, and rebuilding it afterwards will not be at all easy. Right. So we want the same thing, yes? Except, of course, that we don't. I don't consider a question about, say, getch() or socket() to be a general C question. [/QUOTE]
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