From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Two ideas for the next Ada Standard
Date: 1996/09/04
Date: 1996-09-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1996Sep4.180638.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.841840313@schonberg
In article <dewar.841840313@schonberg>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> It is fine to have informal discussions, but of necessity the Ada standard
> will be stable for at least a decade, so the important thing to realize
> is that discussions of possible changes to Ada 95 have pretty mjuch zero
> impact on the real problems of how to get Ada 95 programs working (but
That is a shame.
Discussions in most newsgroups have enormous effect on the real world :-).
> The other thing to avoid is the broken record phenomenon. New people will
> wander into the Ada fold over time, and will send messages saying things
> like "gee I don't like the p(a) notation, I prefer a.p", and it would be
> nice to simply be able to refer people to a CLA archive with some
> apporpriate thread references. Is anyone maintaining anything approaching
> such an archive.
I think the first line of defense is a strongly worded FAQ for overly
discussed non-issues. "This syntax differs from C++." has a one-word
answer - "Yes". I am strongly reminded of the question "How do I zero
the new mail counter?" from another part of my life. That requires a
strong FAQ entry despite being fully documented in the proper manual.
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-31 0:00 Re:Two ideas for the next Ada Standard dulman
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Two " Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-04 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Joel VanLaven
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Two " Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Jonas Nygren
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-08 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-09-06 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-04 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-04 0:00 Bob Mathis
1996-08-28 0:00 Two ideas for the next Ada standard Van Snyder
1996-08-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-09 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-08-31 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-01 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-09-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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