Re: Ada vs. C/C++...

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In <1992Dec8.141314.25052@inmet.camb.inmet.com> ryer@inmet.camb.inmet.com (Mike
 Ryer) writes:

>Someone asks why we Ada enthusiasts don't post in the C newsgroups.

>My reason is that I am so sick of the C enthusiasts posting in the Ada group
>that I would not want to commit the same sin.

Uh, could you please remove the definite article from the phrase "the
C enthusiasts" in the preceding?  What you see here (when it is
started by a C proponent) is a very small minority -- most people
don't feel any great need to try to tell you what language you should
be using, and simply wish they were allowed the same option.  And if
you think the same sort of thing doesn't happen over in the C groups,
you must be reading a different USENET than the one that I get.

>I read comp.lang.ada because I'm interested in Ada.  The language wars are
>offensive.  If you think C is a better language than Ada, post *that* in the
>C newsgroups.

No, that doesn't belong in the C newsgroups any more than C/C++
bashing really belongs here.

>I agree with the general point that Ada people should get more information 
>out into the general community.  However, stuff about the joys of language
>X in the language Y newsgroup is a disservice.

On this one I agree.  I would add that comments about how language Y
is crap and the people who use it are ignorant fools probably doesn't
belong in the newsgroup for either language X or language Y.

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