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, SUBJECT_NEEDS_ENCODING,SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 107e1d,c724b6870c226707 X-Google-Attributes: gid107e1d,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c724b6870c226707 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Subject: Re: fr.comp.lang.ada, pour discuter en fran�ais du langage Ada Date: 1997/01/25 Message-ID: <5cemf3$8v2@felix.seas.gwu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 212264838 references: <32E48C50.59E2@Rational.COM> <5c2ks7$dm7@ash.ridgecrest.ca.us> <5c54p8$oov@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> organization: George Washington University newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,fr.comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-01-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <5c54p8$oov@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us>, Philip Brashear wrote: >As an English-speaking/reading person, I certainly have no objection to >seeing French (or German, or Swahili, or even my native Hillbilly) postings. >I'd hate to think that I was so language-biased >that I couldn't recognize the worth of other forms of expression. >(Now, when it comes to software engineering languages, as opposed to >natural languages, that's a whole different ball game!) I second Phil's emotion. One of the very nice things about the Internet is its international flavor. Even though it started here in the US, it is truly worldwide now, and that is its charm. I have NO objection to seeing articles posted in other languages. I read French and Dutch fluently and might even try to write some in followup. There is no rule that requires news posts to be in English, and anyone who'd discourage other languages is just being xenophobic (IMHO). If you don;t understand the language of a post, that's what the "next message" key is for! In any case, I am really saddened by the growing trend to set up (natural-) language-specific groups for French, German, and whatever. Why should we trake a wonderfully worldwide community and balkanize it? Silly, IMHO! Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) http://www.seas.gwu.edu/faculty/mfeldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pork is all that money the government gives the other guys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ada on the WWW: www.acm.org/sigada/education or www.adahome.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------