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Posted by Andy Dingley on 12/05/06 19:57
ccnyonuk@yahoo.com wrote:
> Ï/Ç Andy Dingley wrote:
> > > http://ioannis.virtualcomposer2000.com/programming/handles.html
> >
> > No, he's a nutter. Green ink on black webpage with no margins?
>
> Did the OP ask your opinion on this guy's website?
Welcome to Usenet (I see you're new here - hope the tests are working
out)
> resorting to ad hominem.
That's not an ad hominem, it's an insult. An ad hominem would be to say
"He's a nutter, therefore his opinions are worthless". I think his
views are worthless, therefore he's a nutter. Different causality.
> > PS - the idea of "just the processors handle pointers" hasn't been true
> > for 20 years either (even longer on big iron)
>
> This is bullshit. You don't even know what a Mac "handle" is.
I write Java all day. I know what the differences are between handles,
pointers and references.
And in what way is it "bullshit"? Modern computers (bigger than the
ones in your toaster) don't use the processor alone to manipulate their
memory referencing system.
> To the OP: I've been programming Macs sinve 1984:
We're Not Worthy.
> What this guy says
> about Mac handles and links to webpages is basically true.
What he says about handles is simplistic and antiquated, but basically
right. His extension of this into an analogy for web pages is bizarre.
His suggestion for a web-based implementation of a redirection
mechanism is badly thought out and ridiculous.
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