Re: Desperately in need of help!!!!!! Please read

[dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

Mike asks for help on his assignment

Mike, an important part of an assignment is to learn to find and
understand your own errors. If you need help you should find it
locally. It is really not appropriate to post tens of thousands
of copies of your assignment around the world trying to get help.
After all, just think about it, there are thousands of stuents
learning Ada. Suppose they all posted their assignments for help
as you did -- comp.lang.ada would get thousands of messages a
day, and be rendered completely useless for any other purpose
(and by the way, also useless for getting homework help!)


Note: I am posting this for two reasons, one, to remind people that
you are not helping a student by doing their work for them.
Two, to perhaps let other students who read this understand
why it is impractical to expect help in this manner.