From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: How come so much traffic on comp.lang.ada??
Date: 1 Feb 1995 08:49:50 -0500
Date: 1995-02-01T08:49:50-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3go3hu$8vn@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hbaker-3001951716250001@192.0.2.1
There are a couple of obvious answers on why the Ada traffic is relatively
high.
First: a lot of it is advocacy junk, which would better in my mind be
moved to some other group, separating the technical content out.
Second: we have a new standard, widely available, which naturally
generates questions and interest. The C++ proposed standard is by
contrast not very available (honk if you have a copy :-) but when
it does come out, there will be LOTS of questions.
Third: A lot of the Ada community is, and has always been, very internet
oriented (after all the original Ada, as well as Ada 9X, was developed
depending heavily on the internet, certainly NOT true of C!)
Fourth: a lot of the comp.lang.ada traffic comes from a few individuals
(remove feldman, dewar, baker, aharonian, T.E.D and a few others, and
the volume will be way down :-)
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-01-31 1:14 How come so much traffic on comp.lang.ada?? Henry Baker
1995-01-31 9:20 ` Jahn Rentmeister
1995-01-31 15:08 ` David Emery
1995-02-01 23:26 ` David Weller
1995-02-02 1:27 ` David O'Brien
1995-02-01 6:27 ` Paul H. Whittington
1995-02-01 13:49 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1995-02-01 15:35 ` Jules
1995-02-01 23:57 ` Samuel Mize
1995-02-07 18:29 ` Richard G. Hash
1995-02-11 13:48 ` Robert Dewar
1995-02-02 13:13 ` Mats Weber
1995-02-07 15:47 ` Fergus Henderson
[not found] ` <3gtifn$m2l@theopolis.orl.mmc.com>
1995-02-08 2:53 ` DEAN RUNZEL
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1995-01-31 6:24 tmoran
1995-02-01 1:27 ` gpetrey
1995-02-01 14:53 CONDIC
1995-02-07 15:32 CONDIC
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