On 28.01.2024 20:10, David Brown wrote:

On 28/01/2024 19:34, bart wrote:

Why not open just open it up a bit more? Although the worst for mostly
posting off-topic material right now is JP.

You missed that you were initially and still are amongst the ones who contributed most to recent off-topic'ness to this group. And I'm not (primarily) speaking about your tool (or the repeated advertisement
for it). My third post ever in this group, a question about CPP tags,
was hijacked (without the subject changed or the posts marked as OT),
and I posted a note that it had already been completely answered after
a dozen posts; despite that you (and some others) "misused" (sort of)
that thread. The thread was filled with non-topical trash, and all
hundreds of posts (and your posts even with hundreds [of non-topical]
lines) since then and still named under my subject. It appears to be
related to my question, so I have to look into them. It may happen
that a thread goes stray, but after the hint I consider it rude.

Mind that I don't cares if folks post about OT stuff, if it is marked
as such [OT] or/and the subject changed so that we can identify (and
skip) such threads. (I've tried a few times, but some here just don't
care despite hinted to; you included as one of the most prominent
members.)

A toy program according to JP!

I haven't read your post, just noticed the personal ("JP") references,
so I don't know whether your post is still concerning your personal
toy project from many weeks ago (or something else I haven't seen).

I think we've already identified a couple factors of professional
software projects and about toy software projects upthread. If you
lack personal expertise and don't understand what had been written,
I can't help you; I won't repeat it, nor explain it again (you seem
anyway not showing interest).

From David's response below I infer that you are speaking about a
piece of code that you think is a professional work because it has
many lines. So I assume that you are still speaking about that one
C file with, what?, 50.000+ lines all in one monolithic source file.
(I've seen it when you posted the link some weeks ago. *shudder*)

Toys can be big, can't they? (Again, I can't answer for JP.)

I'm not sure I'd have found a better reply of appropriate terseness.

Janis

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On 29/01/2024 05:38, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 28.01.2024 20:10, David Brown wrote:

On 28/01/2024 19:34, bart wrote:

Why not open just open it up a bit more? Although the worst for mostly
posting off-topic material right now is JP.

You missed that you were initially and still are amongst the ones who contributed most to recent off-topic'ness to this group. And I'm not (primarily) speaking about your tool (or the repeated advertisement
for it). My third post ever in this group, a question about CPP tags,
was hijacked (without the subject changed or the posts marked as OT),
and I posted a note that it had already been completely answered after
a dozen posts; despite that you (and some others) "misused" (sort of)
that thread. The thread was filled with non-topical trash, and all
hundreds of posts (and your posts even with hundreds [of non-topical]
lines) since then and still named under my subject.

Hijacking of threads occurs all the time. Including some of mine; then I
just leave people to it.

See "you think that rust may outthone c?" from Jul 2023 for example,
with nearly 1000 posts.

Or "bart again (UCX 64)" (not my thread) with nearly 600.

I didn't even know you were the OP of the "Effect of CPP Tags" thread.

My first post there was replying to LDO's comment about C's header files
and macro processing. (I view all posts linearly, not structured by thread.)

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On 29/01/2024 06:38, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 28.01.2024 20:10, David Brown wrote:

Toys can be big, can't they? (Again, I can't answer for JP.)

I'm not sure I'd have found a better reply of appropriate terseness.

Just to be clear - I did not say or intend to imply that I think the
program here is a "toy". I haven't commented on the program itself. I
/have/, in the past, referred to some programs or projects as "toys",
but I do that in context, and I might mean something different by the
word. All I was saying here is that having a large line count does not
in itself imply that a piece of code is not a "toy" - for whatever
meaning that term has.

(I really should have put a smiley on that comment, or even better,
stayed out of the disagreement entirely.)

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