From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: GNAT discussions should be here as well.
Date: 1999/03/02
Date: 1999-03-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7bhmkf$i6t$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7bgmqm$82v@drn.newsguy.com
In article <7bgmqm$82v@drn.newsguy.com>,
kvisko@ wrote:
> All public Ada discussions should be done here, on any
> topic, any one can simply ignore threads they are not
> interested in. Why are the Ada people so up-tight about
> these things? While on other newsgroups no one makes
> any point about these things?
I think the answer to that is quite easy, on other
newsgroups, most serious users of the language have
departed, and the newsgroups are of even less use to
serious users of the language than comp.lang.ada is.
CLA still has a large number of very knowledgable
Ada folks, including the original designers, who closely
follow the group.
Nevertheless, it is our experience that many serious users
of GNAT (including by the way most of the people at ACT
itself) do not find it worth while to take the time to
read CLA. There is still a lot of noise (off topic stuff,
advocacy on C vs Ada, various gripes etc) which serious
Ada users find unhelpful.
The chat@gnat.com list has been far more focussed, and has
an absolute minimum of off-topic noise (basically we don't
permit it there at all), and you will find many experienced
GNAT users who will be able to help with GNAT problems
there who do not read CLA.
Obviously there are exceptions, for example, David Hoos'
detailed post on how to use GNAT on the SGI. But note that
if the original question had been sent to chat@gnat.com,
there are many *current* users of both n32 and o32 GNAT who
could have also provided assistance.
No one is preventing anyone from posting GNAT questions or
questions on other specific compilers to CLA, but generally
you will speak to a larger and more knowledgable audience
if you use the chat@gnat.com list.
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-02 0:00 SGI GNAT Question? (Long) Paul Colvert
1999-03-02 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-03-02 0:00 ` GNAT discussions should be here as well kvisko
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-02 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-03-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-02 0:00 ` SGI GNAT Question? (Long) dewar
1999-03-03 0:00 ` Paul Colvert
1999-03-03 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-04 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-04 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-04 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-05 0:00 ` GNAT Field Test scope (was SGI GNAT Question) Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-05 0:00 ` SGI GNAT Question? (Long) dennison
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-07 0:00 ` root
1999-03-07 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-08 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-05 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-07 0:00 ` root
1999-03-07 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-07 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-07 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-08 0:00 ` root
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Some GNAT history (was Re: SGI GNAT Question? (Long)) dewar
1999-03-09 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-09 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-09 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1999-03-11 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-09 0:00 ` SGI GNAT Question? (Long) dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-05 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-05 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-02 0:00 ` Gautier
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