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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Nicolas Brunot Subject: Ada student homework ? Date: 2000/11/08 Message-ID: <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 691126315 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net X-Trace: nnrp4.proxad.net 973674203 212.27.38.146 (Wed, 08 Nov 2000 10:03:23 CET) Organization: Guest of ProXad - France MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 10:03:23 CET Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Does everybody here making a student homework hunting ? There is often despising and rude posts towards supposingly 'students homework' I don't think most people take really the time to check if it is really a homework or not before answering like that (commenting is more appropriate than answering) Experienced programmers starting Ada are likely to ask homework like questions (not so bad after all to learn Ada) Have this kind of people, giving lessons to everybody, tried a language they absolutely don't know, and how would they take this kind of reaction ? Even if this is a homework, are you their teachers ? More of concern, if Ada is not more widely used, this has certainly something to do with some Ada users attitude. I think the despising and ironical way Ada homework questions are treated (when they are really homework ...) is an excellent way to keep Ada a confidential language. If I were a student, not really interested in Ada, and asking help for a undesired homework, after such answers, I would certainly think that it's perfectly normal than a Ada it's almost unknown and would turn towards more popular languages like C or Java I don't follow a lot of forums, but I never see this kind of reaction on forums dealing with more widely used programming.