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- From: alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Lets split comp.lang.ada into multiple groups to confine flames
- Message-ID: <62879@mimsy.umd.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 19:46:08 GMT
- References: <BzCs15.B28@gdls.CSCTMD.COM>
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- In article <BzCs15.B28@gdls.CSCTMD.COM> tarcea@gdls.CSCTMD.COM (Glenn Tarcea) writes:
- > Can we please stay on the topic of discussing Ada, and Ada in
- > real-world systems. All languages have their strengths and weaknesses
- > and I am tired of hearing religous comparisons of why either Ada is
- > better than language X or language X is better than Ada. Maybe a news
- > group called comp.lang.religion should be started for these stupid discussions.
-
- good posting, but how about a real division-
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- make comp.lang.ada obsolete and create a small set of groups instead.
-
- some suggestions
-
- comp.lang.advocacy - for the flame wars
- comp.lang.programmer - for discussions of design/development Ada language issues
- (or comp.lang.technical or better name?)
- comp.lang.announce - moderated, low volume important announcements
- of meetings, products, standards, new mandates :) etc
- comp.lang.misc - catch all
-
- this works well in the NeXT groups which I've been reading lately
- they have huge flame fests between Objective-C and C++ but confine
- them to the advocacy group.
-
- anyone interested or familiar with how to do this?
-
- P.S. For people worried about getting overrun by C++, stop worrying
- and do something to contribute to Ada's success instead of flaming.
- Does anyone else program in Ada on a NeXT using a DVORAK keyboard?
- Talk about swimming against the tide.
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