From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f623a99ccea31363 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: ObjectAda paper documentation and c.l.a vendor-specific content Date: 1996/10/26 Message-ID: <1996Oct26.105235.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 192444787 x-nntp-posting-host: eisner.decus.org references: <54gen2$f6q@hecate.umd.edu> <1996Oct21.174501.1@eisner> <32715EA1.2109@thomsoft.com> x-nntp-posting-user: KILGALLEN x-trace: 846341674/993 organization: LJK Software newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <32715EA1.2109@thomsoft.com>, Dave Wood writes: > The industry trend is definitely toward "paperless" documentation, For several years the industry trend has been toward C++, but that does not make C++ something I want :-) > but like many (most??) people, I like to sit down with a book in > my lap (not a laptop) in addition to enjoying the fruits of on-line > docs. To that end, a full, hardcopy document set will be > available for the next release of ObjectAda for Windows (v7.1). > > In the meantime, we're making available a draft set of docs, > (8.5x11, 3-hole punch, shrink-wrap) for a nominal fee to cover > reproduction and shipping. Call your sales rep and ask for > product 1102-DRFT-DC. It is Saturday morning, and if you had spent the extra few keystrokes to include the price, our check would have been in the mail by noon. Please post the price, and _I_ will take the heat for having supported such commercialism in c.l.a. After the amount of time we have spent discussing the fact that Tenon's next price will _not_ be $695, I think a quick documentation price is acceptable. Besides, if your price is too high, we can have another one of those neat discussions about hidden modulo 32-bit arithmetic :-) > The OA mailing lists are intended to be essentially self- > sustaining. They are just now building up to a critical > mass where users can help one another as they might here on > c.l.a. We think it best not to have product-specific > discussions on a general newsgroup because it can clutter > up discussion of the main topic (hint, hint...) There will, however, always be some degree of product-specific discussion appropriate to c.l.a, and progress toward universal preference for Ada is such that it would be unwise to turn away questions with a curt "go ask in the vendor-specific forum". Certainly the existence of a GNAT mailing list does not exclude GNAT questions from c.l.a. I imagine it would be a good idea to have product-specific mailing list signup information written out explicitly on the Home of the Brave Ada Programmers web site so that those interested would not have to clamber through a vendor-specifc web-site hierarchy to get that information. Larry Kilgallen