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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cec04f9d45b3f527 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-01 12:05:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:05:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 14:06:53 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Ada advocacy method References: <3F4F4817.7030306@noplace.com> <3F50130A.1070406@noplace.com> <3F50A70E.7050809@noplace.com> <3F521B65.1090004@noplace.com> <20030831123103.43926d87.falis@verizon.net> <3F535639.9060008@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <3F535639.9060008@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.67 X-Trace: sv3-mlLXkc9SDKiojj0Y+vy0of+m41VGAlRNUGLE0Un1yI2ncPPV8HtHQrierdcXybd4C5KfXLqLLmdwrmF!6tRHlVWa0vp+Mo165cC5YhLOswLp5Q5EYCu3/5SnamLXte4qMaICAbBkFe6QcpexzkkhQmln154v X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42039 Date: 2003-09-01T14:06:53-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > from a really thorough collection of hyperlinked documentation. Say what > you will about Microsoft - the documentation you got from MSVC++ was > pretty thorough. It would be a useful thing to have the ARM similarly Define thorough. If it's like most Microsoft documentation, it means lots of words in lots of files, but it does not mean something one can actually get any assistance from. Apple's online help is just as useful as Microsoft's. But at least they don't try to hide the fact by making it LOOK like an encyclopedia. (I am not trying to claim that Ada has anything better!) -- Wes Groleau Alive and Well http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau/