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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,27c65a5d645381b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Mike Silva" Subject: Re: When cross-posting, don't annoy the pig Date: 1999/12/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 564251221 References: <38600FF9.4B3BE3CA@averstar.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-Complaints-To: news@wenet.net X-Trace: news.wenet.net 945969452 206.169.137.33 (Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:17:32 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 09:17:32 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: I've been thinking about this since it was posted, and I agree that gratuitous (key word!) Ada references are to be avoided. Still, in many language-neutral groups that are quite relevant to Ada there seems to be an unspoken C/C++ "assumption". I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to post some form of Ada mini-FAQ to these groups, not covering the entire language in detail, but focusing on those areas of the language which are appropriate to the particular newsgroup. Examples of language-neutral groups that seem to beg for Ada info would be comp.arch.embedded, comp.realtime, comp.robotics and comp.programming.threads (it's quite likely that a single mini-FAQ could cover all of these groups). I would see such mini-FAQs as analagous to the CPU-specific FAQs posted in the first three groups. There are probably other, more general-purpose groups that could also be considered. Anyway, that's my thinking. It seems a shame that so many groups where Ada would be a natural never hear about it. Mike Tucker Taft wrote in message <38600FF9.4B3BE3CA@averstar.com>... >There is an old folk saying, that goes roughly: > > Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. > >Readers of comp.lang.ada have recently been encouraged to cross-post >items to comp.programming.threads and comp.os.vxworks. That sometimes >seems appropriate, but regular readers of those other news groups >definitely do not welcome gratuitous mentions of Ada just for the >sake of it. > >If there is something really meaningful to say that >relates to Ada, fine. But don't go trying to convince everyone >in other newsgroups that Ada is the solution to all problems. >It wastes your time, and it annoys the reader of the other newsgroup. > >-- >-Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ >Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools) >AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA