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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b47b15fda2aeb0b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Two ideas for the next Ada Standard Date: 1996/09/04 Message-ID: <1996Sep4.180638.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 178543131 x-nntp-posting-host: eisner.decus.org references: <50aao3$3r88@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <322B5BB0.422E@joy.ericsson.se> <50gt4b$13lg@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> x-nntp-posting-user: KILGALLEN x-trace: 841874803/11842 organization: LJK Software newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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