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- From: sfk@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Knight)
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 11:31:03 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: help
- Message-ID: <116670004@otter.hpl.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pop
- References: <1dtqn9INN7kk@hobbes.genrad.com>
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- Here's the original call for discussion posted by Ian Rogers of Sussex
- University. I hope this will answer some of the most obvious questions
- about the intentions for this newsgroup. There definitely needs to be
- a FAQ list. If anyone wants to start the ball-rolling on this, I'm
- happy to act as coordinator. The first FAQ is "What is POP?"; answers on
- a postcard to this group ....
-
- Steve
-
- Ian's post follows:
- > The group would serve for discussions on the programming language Pop11, and
- > related environments and libraries.
- >
- > Relevant topics, in this group, would cover all aspects of Pop11 programming
- > (from novice questions to expert efficiency issues) and the current BSI
- > standards effort (Pop9x).
- >
- > Also relevant would be conversations about the Poplog programming environment
- > and its libraries. Eg.
- >
- > OOP in Pop11 Flavours, or objectclass etc.
- > X windows hacking in Pop11
- > Mixed language programming (eg. between Lisp/Pop11/Prolog/ML/C etc.) that
- > is supported in Poplog but isn't relevant for discussion in other, pure
- > language, groups
- > Techniques for Artificial Intelligence programming (it is an AI language
- > after all :)
- >
- > and so on.
- >
- > These sorts of discussions have so far been supported by a mailing list. But
- > the list is now far too unwieldy (>400 members). Universities are a constant
- > hassle for the mailing list, with students leaving and joining all the time. A
- > news group would serve these people much better.
- >
- > Bandwidth is quite low.
- >
- > The group would be gatewayed, at Univ. of Sussex, onto the mailing list for
- > the industrial members with no internet access.
- >
- > We seem to have done things backwards. We have a user group (Plug), an archive
- > server, conferences and a standards effort, but no news group. I hope to
- > rectify this :-)
-