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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,18660da2464b3277 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-31 07:16:20 PST Path: swrinde!hookup!news.mathworks.com!news.duke.edu!eff!blanket.mitre.org!linus.mitre.org!spectre!emery From: emery@goldfinger.mitre.org (David Emery) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come so much traffic on comp.lang.ada?? Date: 31 Jan 1995 15:08:44 GMT Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: goldfinger.mitre.org In-reply-to: hbaker@netcom.com's message of Tue, 31 Jan 1995 01:14:03 GMT Date: 1995-01-31T15:08:44+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- --The preceeding opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of --The MITRE Corporation or its sponsors. -- "A good plan violently executed -NOW- is better than a perfect plan -- next week" George Patton -- "Any damn fool can write a plan. It's the execution that gets you -- all screwed up" James Hollingsworth -------------------------------------------------------------------------