Re: Inheritance and Ada

[MFELDMAN@GWUVM.BITNET (Mike Feldman)]

The discussion on inheritance has been very interesting from a technical
point of view. I am a bit concerned by a series of messages discussing
other languages that turn out to be commercials of the form

"...Ada does not allow X, but NewLang does, and oh, by the way, my
company produces NewLang..."

Several comments are pertinent here. I do not oppose discussions with
some commercial content. Info-Ada is the major on-line forum about the
language, and commercial information is useful information. I would
prefer to see the discussion a bit more limited to Ada. What does
disturb me, though, is that a number of months ago a budding and very
useful discussion on certain PC-oriented Ada compilers was ruthlessly
suppressed (indeed, the forum was shut down for a time!) with no
explanation except a veiled one suggesting "commercialism."

There have been a number of interesting and important developments in
the Ada/microcomputer world which I would like to see discussed but fear
would lead to another round of censorship. Frankly, as an educator
used to the free flow of information seen in forums on other languages
(C, Modula-2 in particular), I'd like to see this really be an info-ada
board. We who are not DoD contractors lack for useful information, and
it's hard to get to SIGAda meetings because they always seem to get
scheduled during our exam or registration weeks.

Well, friends, how would _you_ like it to be?