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,c2318591037235d2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-15 03:56:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!paloalto-snh1.gtei.net!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: periodicity (contents of comp.lang.ada) Date: 15 Mar 2002 05:56:15 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Distribution: world Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1016193403 27142 192.135.80.34 (15 Mar 2002 11:56:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 11:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21276 Date: 2002-03-15T05:56:15-06:00 List-Id: In article , "Kent Paul Dolan" 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.