How we recognize newbies as newbies

[Shadowman]

1. Invalid "int _tmain", "void main", etc.
2. Needless and incorrect "(T) expression"
3. Complaints that output doesn't appear.

I have to say, I was a bit annoyed yesterday when I was trying to google
some Unix-specific function, and the majority of search results I got
turned out to link to mirrors of c.l.c++ and c.l.c.

So the information I got looked like:

Initial Poster: I'm trying to blah blah blah File descriptor blah
fork() blah.

Answer: Sorry, can't discuss that here.


Arrrrgh!!!


Of course, the corresponding discussion wasn't readily available in the
correct newsgroup. I'm not suggesting we do anything different, it's
just half funny and half annoying. We've got so much of that here that
it has diluted my web searches!

 

[red floyd]

1. Invalid "int _tmain", "void main", etc.
2. Needless and incorrect "(T) expression"
3. Complaints that output doesn't appear.

32473. "How do I get a file from http://www.example.com/some_url"/

 

[Old Wolf]

1. Invalid "int _tmain", "void main", etc.
2. Needless and incorrect "(T) expression"
3. Complaints that output doesn't appear.

4. How do u implement sizeof?

 

[Default User]

32473. "How do I get a file from http://www.example.com/some_url"/

42. What do you mean there's an error on line 42?




Brian

 

[tony_in_da_uk]

1. Invalid "int _tmain", "void main", etc.
2. Needless and incorrect "(T) expression"
3. Complaints that output doesn't appear.

--
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

They still have the humility to ask honest questions simply, without
padding them with formality and technicalities to emphasise the
seriousness and thoroughness of their previous considerations. Half
of us old timers may never post a question - or at least not for
several years - almost as a matter of principle ;-P.

Tony

 

[Ian Collins]

They still have the humility to ask honest questions simply, without
padding them with formality and technicalities to emphasise the
seriousness and thoroughness of their previous considerations.

They also quote signatures....

 

[Victor Bazarov]

32473. "How do I get a file from http://www.example.com/some_url"/

32474. "My 3rd cousin's boyfriend's coed said that C++ is faster
than Javerlscript. Izzat tru?"

 

[Frank Birbacher]

Hi!

1. Invalid "int _tmain", "void main", etc.
2. Needless and incorrect "(T) expression"
3. Complaints that output doesn't appear.

4. Replying (!) to a message to send a totaly new question. This should
be a new thread with a new subject instead.


Frank

 

[red floyd]

Hi!


4. Replying (!) to a message to send a totaly new question. This should
be a new thread with a new subject instead.

Frank

27. Execessive java-isms.
e.g.:
class C
{
// ...
};

int f()
{
C* c = new C;
// do stuff and don't delete c
}

 

[Frank Birbacher]

Hi!

27. Execessive java-isms.
e.g.:
class C
{
// ...
};

int f()
{
C* c = new C;
// do stuff and don't delete c
}

27b. Why is this not working?
C c = new C;

Frank

 

[Mike Wahler]

An inordinate interest in the size of things.

That would be the female newbies.

-Mike

 

[Diego Martins]

That would be the female newbies.

-Mike

LOL ))

<machismo>
all females are newbies in C++
</machismo>