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: Wed, 29 May 91 07:49:39 -0400 From: karl@grebyn.com (Karl A. Nyberg) Subject: Re: Artificially intelligent Ada Answer-Person Message-ID: <9105291149.AA13970@grebyn.com> List-Id: In article <1991May28.214107.1@east.pima.edu> you write: >Several recent & frequently asked questions have ready answers available in the >various free Ada information sources, questions such as (but not limited to): >Knowing, as many of us "old-timer" and frequent readerss do, that most of these >questions could be answered with some guided research, I have to ask the >following question: > > What can the Ada community do to make Ada information more READILY > and EASILY available to the general computing public? > >AdaIC, AdaNET, INFO-ADA and comp.lang.ada, the ASR, and other sources are >readily available, but it seems there is no "artificially intelligent" >answer-person service available. I should to be able to log into a free/cheap >service and type in any variant of the three questions above and get an >IMMEDIATE answer. Does such a beast exist? > >I have two motives for asking. (1) I'm an information-hog and there are tons of >simple questions like the above I'd like to ask, and am looking for the best >source of such information without absolutely REQUIRING human intevention, and >(2) If such a service is NOT available, I'd like to consider building one. I would be glad to work on a regularly distributed Frequently Asked Questions posting for comp.lang.ada if you/anybody else would like to join. Of course, I am not about to put everything that I have in the Ada : Sources & Resources publication into the FAQ. -- Karl -- -- Karl A. Nyberg karl@grebyn.com Post Office Box 497 Grebyn Corporation Vienna, VA 22183-0497 USA +1-703-281-2194