From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 16 Dec 92 19:46:08 GMT From: alex@MIMSY.CS.UMD.EDU (Alex Blakemore) Subject: Lets split comp.lang.ada into multiple groups to confine flames Message-ID: <62879@mimsy.umd.edu> List-Id: In article tarcea@gdls.CSCTMD.COM (Glenn Tarcea) w rites: > Can we please stay on the topic of discussing Ada, and Ada in > real-world systems. All languages have their strengths and weaknesses > and I am tired of hearing religous comparisons of why either Ada is > better than language X or language X is better than Ada. Maybe a news > group called comp.lang.religion should be started for these stupid discussion s. good posting, but how about a real division- make comp.lang.ada obsolete and create a small set of groups instead. some suggestions comp.lang.advocacy - for the flame wars comp.lang.programmer - for discussions of design/development Ada language i ssues (or comp.lang.technical or better name?) comp.lang.announce - moderated, low volume important announcements of meetings, products, standards, new mandates :) et c comp.lang.misc - catch all this works well in the NeXT groups which I've been reading lately they have huge flame fests between Objective-C and C++ but confine them to the advocacy group. anyone interested or familiar with how to do this? P.S. For people worried about getting overrun by C++, stop worrying and do something to contribute to Ada's success instead of flaming. Does anyone else program in Ada on a NeXT using a DVORAK keyboard? Talk about swimming against the tide. -- --------------------------------------------------- Alex Blakemore alex@cs.umd.edu NeXT mail accepted