home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.lang.basic
- Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!news.cs.brandeis.edu!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!cos
- From: cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Ofer Inbar)
- Subject: Re: Something tells me comp.lang.basic wouldn't fly
- Message-ID: <cos.722304561@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Sender: news@news.cs.brandeis.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Brandeis University
- References: <1992Nov13.145125.11147@julian.uwo.ca> <Bxz8y6.BnL@phage.cshl.org>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 00:09:21 GMT
- Lines: 24
-
- boutell@isis.cshl.org (Tom Boutell) writes:
- >Sure, a lot of people (me included) get enough out of alt.lang.basic, but
- >some places don't get alt groups, and there's also a principle involved here
- >(that a major programming language is kept out of the comp.lang hierarchy).
-
- "kept out"? What are you talking about?
-
- >With some of the negative comments about basic a few posts back, something
- >tells me that a lot of basic trashers would come out of the woodwork and
- >vote down comp.sys.basic.
-
- Hey, I'd vote against comp.sys.basic, and I'm certainly no BASIC
- trasher. As for comp.lang.basic, I think it would probably pass. Or
- at least fail due to too few votes, rather than too many no votes.
-
- >Surely a vote has been tried before? Does anyone know the results?
-
- "Surely"? What are you talking about? Such a vote has never been
- proposed until very recently. I think you're being overly paranoid.
-
- -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
- -- WBRS (BRiS) -- WBRS@binah.cc.brandeis.edu WBRS@brandeis.bitnet
- "Good literature is about Love and War."
- "Junk fiction is about Sex and Violence."
-