Re: The end of stackoverflow?

On 5/11/2024 4:45 AM, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

The most annoying is that 4 of 5 question that I want to
ask there are destroyed by the moderators.

For all the folks who think "moderation" is the solution...  :>

  It is largely arbitrary.
Explain the difference between c and lisp macro's?
IMHO dubious. Huge upvotes, apparently acceptable.
Explain the difference between Forth and lisp macro's?
A more sensible question because they are more related.
Shot down, inappropiate for SO.
My sensible m4 question (how to write a function that
removes the first character of a string) was voted down.

In Inferno/Limbo, you would use "len" to determine the number
of characters in the argument (to guard against degenerate
cases -- with appropriate conditional logic) and then "substr"
to peel off the characters following the "0-th" character.