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Re: Enough with the newbie C questions!

On Aug 30, 2003, at 2:50 PM, Dustin Voss wrote:

Recently, I've noticed many people asking basic C questions on this list. Questions about conditional expressions, pointers, return values. This bothers me. Newbie Objective-C questions are one thing (though I am getting heartily tired of seeing "when do I retain/release" questions), and I don't have a problem with newbie AppKit questions, but C?

To you newbie programmers: If you don't know C, you aren't ready. There are many books at your local library. There are classes out there too, even in high school. It is easy to teach yourself everything you need to know about C, especially with the help of the Internet. There are better forums for C questions than this mailing list! Please use them!

Speaking as Apple's listmom for Cocoa-dev, and expanding on what Scott Anguish said earlier..

I will also mention that this list is *for* the newbies, as much as it is for advanced developers. If you see a question on this list that you don't think belongs here, please default to ignoring the question, rather than complaining about the question.

Let me also advise new developers that comp.lang.c.moderated is probably a better place to get C questions answered quickly.

-jcr

John C. Randolph <email@hidden> (408) 974-8819
Sr. Cocoa Software Engineer,
Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
http://developer.apple.com/cocoa/index.html
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