Re: periodicity (contents of

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <a382a7626f81f2efce1b56bbbb0f35ac.48257@mygate.mailgate.org>, "Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> writes:
> Nice to see I can come back to comp.lang.ada after an absense of months,
> and find exactly the same subjects still/again being discussed.
> 
> How about instead of focusing on the future of Ada, and how it compares
> or contrasts with every language on the planet, more useful efforts
> focus on the present of Ada, and making it more full of good libraries
> and freeware tools so that it will _have_ a future.  It is sad to me
> that as long as Ada has been around there still isn't enough substantive
> discussion to have split off a diversity of forums(*) similar to the
> more commercially successful and sought after programming languages.

Newsgroup splits in comp.lang.pascal have been quite painful with
lots of misposts and cross-posts.

> This  is, after all, a language much older than Java, 2/3rds as old as
> C, over 40% as old as Fortran by now; why is half the posting volume
> still full of new language angst and defensiveness?

Because new people keep coming to the group with old questions.

> I.e., comp.lang.ada.*, where besides the choices easily researched from
> the other language newsgroups, there really should be a
> comp.lang.ada.gnat by now, probably with leaf groups of its own.

There are several mailing lists related to GNAT which work well.