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: 103376,184737148aef02ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: A Modest Defense of ACT (though they are big boys and can take care of themselves) Date: 1999/02/22 Message-ID: <1999Feb22.162652.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 447231202 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <78sojm$crk$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7982p7$nll$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <87aeyv4kbg.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com> <79asc3$cq3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79c2ch$j1c$1@remarQ.com> <79ckt6$rp3$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7ah65p$4ag$1@remarQ.com> <36CF00DB.43DF428C@lmco.com> <7anmqc$pof$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7ar250$dq3@drn.newsguy.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 919718816 9041 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7ar250$dq3@drn.newsguy.com>, bill writes: > However, there seem to be more programming questions in > other languages news groups about those languages (such as C, C++, > Java) than there are questions here about Ada. Not sure if it is > becuase there are less Ada programmers than the others, or is > it becuase Ada is better defined, Ada programmers do not need to > ask many questions about it, or is it that the Ada compiler finds > all the bugs for the programmer, there is nothing else left for > them to ask about :) I think one of the expectations of regulars here is that inquiries should be made only after consulting a book. Considering Ada's place on the hyped-favorite-of-the-month scale, it seems that most who bother to use Ada are willing to read books. Larry Kilgallen