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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,35ce1c7836290812 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: GNAT discussions should be here as well. Date: 1999/03/02 Message-ID: <7bhmkf$i6t$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 450491448 References: <7bflkk$78i$1@news.ro.com> <7bgmqm$82v@drn.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x7.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Mar 02 21:53:22 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-03-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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 -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own