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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,27c65a5d645381b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: When cross-posting, don't annoy the pig Date: 1999/12/23 Message-ID: <1999Dec23.140731.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 564289405 References: <38600FF9.4B3BE3CA@averstar.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 945976055 13639 KILGALLEN [216.44.122.34] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , "Mike Silva" writes: > I've been thinking about this since it was posted, and I agree that > gratuitous (key word!) Ada references are to be avoided. Still, in many > language-neutral groups that are quite relevant to Ada there seems to be an > unspoken C/C++ "assumption". I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to > post some form of Ada mini-FAQ to these groups, not covering the entire > language in detail, but focusing on those areas of the language which are > appropriate to the particular newsgroup. I think a FAQ in that environment comes across as too evangelistic. My preference is to wait until someone asks for a sample of code and does not indicate that only C (or only Fortran) is acceptable. Then giving them the solution in Ada can often get the point across but with somewhat of a lower degree of rant. Of course this works best when what they are trying to do is a lot easier in Ada. Larry KIlgallen