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  • Re: how to avoid buffering? <-- it's called caching

    From Lane W@3:633/10 to All on Monday, July 20, 2026 10:26:01
    David Brown wrote:

    You have no idea who you are conversing with, right?

    If comp.lang.c can just focus on
    C the language itself, well...

    Buffering and caching are indeed
    not about C the language itself.
    They are NOT about syntax nor
    semantics.

    BUT, does C compilers use caches
    and buffers? :)



    comp.lang.c is a newsgroup focusing on the C programming language.ÿ It's
    in the name of the group - it's not hard to grasp.ÿ If you want to
    discuss some aspect of C programming that involves buffers or cache,
    fair enough.ÿ But "buffering and caching" is no more topical than
    coffee, no matter how much coffee a C programmer might drink.

    Please stop posting random junk to comp.lang.c just because you have
    some vague idea that somehow everything is connected to C programming.

    This is doubly true in this age where newsgroups fade out and posters
    vanish. David Brown is highly interested in entropy and death and would
    like to see that in the newsgroup comp.lang.c. He makes the case that
    coffee, recently found to agitate the liver a great deal, including
    cancer, is bad!

    Cancer causes death, he intones!

    We must be vigorous and determined and over-reaching, because David
    Brown realizes he is powerless to stop you from posting. Again, weakness
    and death!

    In this time of disappearing newsgroups and fading Usenet, we must all
    tell people not to post in our groups, because they could never adapt
    and make better posts, because death!

    We cannot encourage posting to the groups we like to post in!

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  • From Mr. Man-wai Chang@3:633/10 to All on Friday, July 24, 2026 09:46:22
    On 7/21/2026 12:26 AM, Lane W wrote:

    Cancer causes death, he intones!
    ...
    We cannot encourage posting to the groups we like to post in!


    Cancer is detected by blood test and
    tissue extraction and examination.

    You sure that medical labs don't
    make mistakes, accidentally or
    deliberately?

    You sure about doctors' diagnosis?

    You sure that nobody lies?

    Well, back to C the programming
    language not C the cancer. Meow...


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