Re: How come so much traffic on

[csusb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Jules)]

In article <hbaker-3001951716250001@192.0.2.1>,
	hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker) writes:
>I've constantly been amazed by the volume of traffic on comp.lang.ada
>relative to comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++.  On many days the ratio is
>about 1:3, meaning 1 Ada message for every 3 C messages or every 4 C++
>messages.  I have a hard time believing that this is the same as the
>ratio of the number of Ada programmers to C/C++ programmers.  (One
>glance at computer selection at Barnes & Noble bookstore tells a
>completely different story.)
>
>I can only speculate on the reasons for this:
>
>1.  The Ada language itself is so complex that no one can understand it
>without asking a lot of questions.
>
>2.  Ada people work on harder problems which require more consultation.
>
>3.  Usenet is getting only a fraction of the C and C++ questions -- the
>Compu$erve and Airheads Online forums handle most of their questions.
>
>4.  Ada people are lonely, and talk to each other to cheer one another
>up (ditto for comp.lang.lisp).
>
>etc.
>
>Anyone else have any thoughts as to why this is?

Perhaps it's because you don't get flamed to hell for making mistakes in
postings in comp.lang.ada.

Apologies to comp.lang.c, but when I posted a comment there recently, and
made a stupid mistake (one of those obvious things, where you can see exactly
what I mean, but it's not exactly what I say), not only were there 6 (or
could be 7) followups to my message, saying exactly why this is wrong,
pointing out that a) I shouldn't EVER do what I said I do, and b) how the
compiler wouldn't compile it anyway, I also recieved around 10 mail messages
on the same subject.

And this is not uncommon.



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