From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: general comment on CLA
Date: 1997/09/19
Date: 1997-09-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EGrH86.Jt8@world.std.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.SGI.3.95.970918184323.18953C-100000@shellx.best.com
>On 18 Sep 1997, Robert Dewar wrote:
>> I am about to decide that CLA is no longer worth following, but if other
>> people feel that these kinds of threads are reasonable, fine.
It's not *that* bad, Robert. Don't go away.
Yes, the cross-posted language wars contain mostly nonsense posted by
people who don't know what they're talking about, but they do contain
*some* useful discussion. For example, I find the argument about
Ada-style exception handling vs Eiffel's "retry" thing somewhat
interesting. And separate specs vs short-flat tools (although that one
is getting repetetive). At least it's Eiffel vs Ada, which have enough
in common that the differences are worth discussing. If it bores you,
kill-file it.
All in all, I'd say comp.lang.ada has better signal-to-noise than any
newsgroup I've read (except comp.compilers, which is moderated, so
language comparisons get squelched if they start getting too
"war"-like).
Just be glad that the Ada vs Red language "war" isn't crossposted to
comp.lang.red. ;-)
- Bob
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-18 0:00 general comment on CLA Robert Dewar
1997-09-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-09-19 0:00 ` John Herro
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-21 0:00 ` John Herro
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff [this message]
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Moderation? :-( (Was Re: general comment on CLA) Brian Rogoff
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Robert S. White
1997-09-19 0:00 ` general comment on CLA Joerg Rodemann
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-09-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1997-09-21 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-09-20 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
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1997-09-20 0:00 Marc Wachowitz
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