Re: How come so much traffic on

[emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery)]

Here's my hypotheses:

5.  Ada programmers understand the language well enough to ask
questions about the language.
     (akin to the comment that Ada people ask "is this legal?" while
      C people ask "what will this do when it executes?")

6.  Ada programmers are much less egotistical, in the sense that they
view programming as a group activity (rather than an individual
activity).

7.  Ada95 is new enough that people have some real questions on HOW
the language should be used.  By now users of other languages have
settled on 'style' issue.  But I seem to remember similar large
discussions in the early days of comp.lang.c++.

			       dave
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