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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Lets split comp.lang.ada into multiple groups to confine flames
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.233144.8578@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <62879@mimsy.umd.edu> <1992Dec17.084727.26313@sunbim.be> <1992Dec17.172750.17320@seas.gwu.edu> <EACHUS.92Dec18133934@oddjob.mitre.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:31:44 GMT
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- In <EACHUS.92Dec18133934@oddjob.mitre.org> eachus@oddjob.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:
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- > In article 62879@mimsy.umd.edu, alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
- > >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
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- > If this is becomming a serious proposal, the names should be
- >comp.lang.ada.programmer, etc. However comp.lang.advocacy might be
- >more appropriate than having a separate group for each language. (Of
- >course, as soon as this is mentioned in news.groups, the C and C++
- >groups will play keep up with the Jones.)
-
- Sounds good to me. It would let me read the stuff I want to read
- without having people in each group trying to tell me how "language X
- is better than language Y", and people who WANT to do that could go to
- comp.lang.advocacy. Of course, that wouldn't stop it from happening
- in the other groups, but it would at least give me someplace to tell
- people who want to promote their language or back some other one to go
- -- other than the obvious one, I mean.
-
- [There seem to be fewer of these 'my language is better/your language
- is crap' wars in the C/C++ groups than I've seen in the Ada group.
- Not sure why that is, precisely.]
-
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