Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 14:44:45 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Frank Mitchell <mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> Subject: Re: Assembly continues to be used in the development of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20140408184445.GA79554@jerrymc.net> In-Reply-To: <1396974609.81853.443.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <COL127-W467DCAD7917F70A0590C7BE8680@phx.gbl> <14679.1396898970@critter.freebsd.dk> <201404081711.34003.mitchell@wyatt672earp.force9.co.uk> <1396974609.81853.443.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 10:30:09AM -0600, Ian Lepore wrote: Ever notice how someone posts something somewhat off-topic or flame provocative on one of the lists and then we get up to several dozen posts saying feed the troll and ban the troll, etc. All the ban-ists generate more useless traffic (including this one) than any troll and responses. ////jerry > 1) It's off-topic for this list. > > 2) The person has an ever-growing history of trolling this list (and > probably just needs to be banned at this point). Not the usual "trying > to make flames" kind of trolling, the more insidious "act just barely > reasonable enough to get lots of people to waste lots of time" kind of > trolling. > > If you want to discuss vague generalities around the issue of assembler > language programming, I'm sure you can find an appropriate forum to do > so that doesn't also spam people trying to get freebsd work done. > > -- Ian > > On Tue, 2014-04-08 at 17:11 +0100, Frank Mitchell wrote: > > Why are people moaning just because the guy wants to discuss Assembly? He's > > not doing any harm. Some of us are interested, even if we don't want to get > > into Assembly personally. > > > > On Monday 07 Apr 2014 20:29:30 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > In message <COL127-W467DCAD7917F70A0590C7BE8680@phx.gbl>, Jorge Luis > > > Carvalho Santos writes: > > > > > >According to the book "Complete and Total C" by Herbert Schildt, > > > >the general rule is not to use Assembly because it creates too many > > > >problems. > > > > > > Don't feed the troll. > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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