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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,954655e6ccab4ebb X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!g31g2000yqc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Lego Mindstoms for Ada: user group Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 06:01:56 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9ce025c8-1c3a-46e1-808c-150185e819ed@g31g2000yqc.googlegroups.com> References: <069be29a-c0cc-40eb-855a-b94dea5bd04f@j9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <8763e44wk1.fsf@nbi.dk> <59a63a21-d65c-4915-9c66-08288e8dd148@t13g2000yqt.googlegroups.com> <9a868e2f-4cb7-41b4-8e43-c9a1f061d374@m11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.170.86.208 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1247058116 9111 127.0.0.1 (8 Jul 2009 13:01:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g31g2000yqc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.170.86.208; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009061208 Iceweasel/3.0.9 (Debian-3.0.9-1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6906 Date: 2009-07-08T06:01:56-07:00 List-Id: Rod wrote on comp.lang.ada > =A0 =A0I guess each kind of forum has slightly different 'dynamics'. An > irc channel can provide a tutorial like forum (for quick/minor/ > informal questions). A Linkedin (or other email like) forum can give > more lecture-like style of question/answer (ie to discuss new ideas or > aspects). I don't like IRC; there are too many problems with it. Since there are no archives and no subject lines, one cannot later search for an answer. So I am not inclined to give advice there, knowing whatever I say will be lost. Also, newbies are bound to ask the same question over and over. The correct answer, of course, is "search comp.lang.ada" :) The second problem is that, because it is so informal, people tend not to think their questions through; it takes several iterations before we can even understand the question. The great quality of Ada is that it forces the programmer to say what they mean, i.e. think twice. This benefit disappears on IRC. In contrast, as you can see, people post meaningful, well-constructed questions here daily. My conclusion: informal questions belong in a searchable newsgroup and tutorials should go on a Wiki (perhaps a new chapter about Lego Mindstorms in the Ada Programming wikibook?) -- Ludovic Brenta.