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- From: brnstnd@nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: --- comp.programming charter: read before you post (weekly notice)
- Message-ID: <16077.Aug2304.00.1192@virtualnews.nyu.edu>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 04:00:11 GMT
- Organization: IR
- Lines: 59
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- comp.programming Programming issues that transcend languages and OSs.
-
- It is a matter of courtesy to read a USENET group for at least a month
- before posting anything to it. You should be familiar with this article
- and with all the regular announcements in news.announce.newusers. A
- newsgroup is like a crowded meeting hall filled with people who want to
- talk about similar subjects. Chances are that if you just stick your
- head in and shout, you'll be saying something totally inappropriate or
- asking a question which someone else asked last week, and everyone will
- be angry at you. To avoid this, _read_ before you post.
-
- What you _should_ post here (the charter):
-
- comp.programming is an unmoderated group for discussions of
- programming issues which are not limited to a specific machine,
- operating system, or language: in particular, algorithms of all
- types. ``Programming issues'' means _practical_ programming
- issues: it is considered very bad form here to discuss issues
- with which you do not have direct programming experience.
-
- What you _should not_ post here:
-
- Any issue which is limited to a specific machine, operating
- system, or language is completely inappropriate for this group.
- If you are programming under UNIX, use comp.unix.programmer. If
- you are programming a PC, use comp.os.msdos.programmer. If you
- are programming a Mac, use comp.sys.mac.programmer. If you are
- programming an Amiga, use comp.sys.amiga.programmer. If you are
- programming a game and think that your question is of interest
- to other game programmers, use rec.games.programmer. If you're
- absolutely sure that your question is on the use of the C
- language---it wouldn't make sense if you were using a different
- language---try comp.lang.c. If your question is a meta-question
- which has to do with features of various programming languages,
- use comp.lang.misc. If your question has to do with theoretical
- results which have to do with computer science rather than
- programming, try comp.theory. Finally, if you're sure that your
- question would make sense under a variety of operating systems,
- running on a variety of machines, and in a wide variety of
- programming languages, then comp.programming is probably right.
-
- Note added 3/9/92: If you want source code for something, you'll
- get better response in comp.sources.wanted, which was created to
- handle such requests.
-
- Other comp.programming conventions:
-
- It's often difficult to talk about programming without quoting
- the results of that programming---i.e., code. There is nothing
- wrong with using a particular language to present code samples,
- as long as they _could_ have been expressed in various other
- languages. However, you are less likely to have your question
- understood if you illustrate it with a choice segment of APL
- than if you use pseudo-code, Algol, C, etc.
-
- For future reference, comp.programming passed by a vote of 403-47. It
- was created 3/1/92.
-
- ---Dan
-