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: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!) Date: 1997/10/31 Message-ID: <345A37F1.29EA@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286253410 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456b9f3.0@news.eznet.net> <3456e71b.3833189@news.mindspring.com> <3458D116.2D34@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <345904DF.6BB3@easystreet.com> <01bce587$2efe61a0$8691440c@worldnet> <63bpfa$dnt$1@usenet1.interramp.com> Organization: EDS MS Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jerry Sams wrote: > > This is an advocacy group, my friend. What do you mean "this"? Of the six news groups this is posted to, only one is an advocacy group. Either the poster is to lame brained to read a charter or he simply doesn't care about netiquette (or both!) Whatever the merits of Ada, B, BCPL, C, C++, etc., such crossposting of an advocacy thread is either gross incompetence or trolling. alt.flame is indeed a better choice. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Senior Software SE The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org