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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a24:1ad8:: with SMTP id 207-v6mr6805184iti.37.1526824631450; Sun, 20 May 2018 06:57:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:aca:48d2:: with SMTP id v201-v6mr1073839oia.0.1526824631295; Sun, 20 May 2018 06:57:11 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!news.snarked.org!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!v8-v6no3629661itc.0!news-out.google.com!b185-v6ni3420itb.0!nntp.google.com!v8-v6no3629659itc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 06:57:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <65d93062-f55d-435f-a099-3c8ee75f2705@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.113.16.86; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.113.16.86 References: <65d93062-f55d-435f-a099-3c8ee75f2705@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is this Forum Moderated? From: Shark8 Injection-Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 13:57:11 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:52494 Date: 2018-05-20T06:57:10-07:00 List-Id: On Sunday, May 20, 2018 at 5:46:05 AM UTC-6, pat...@spellingbeewinnars.org = wrote: > As is plain to see, the quality of the posting in this forum are at an al= l time low. >=20 > Is this forum even moderated? I don't think it is... at all. >=20 > I spend a lot of my time with the GnuCOBOL project and I love it. It's we= ll moderated and very friendly. The language is also super easy to interfac= e with Ada, much more so than C. I have had the idea, for a while, that banks & insurance companies & other = financial institutions could see a lot of improvement WRT modernization wit= h mixed Ada/COBOL programs; in particular doing the report-generation in CO= BOL and the main "business logic" in Ada (with heavy usage of types to ensu= re correctness) instead of the [seemingly] more popular "PORT IT TO JAVA" t= hat I've seen some people advocate. What are your thoughts? >=20 > There are some super awesome people on this list but it's quickly becomin= g close to unuseable. You know, I think there's only two posters [at least that spring to mind] w= hich vastly detract: the "I do Delphi and post random shit"-guy and the "Ca= n Ada/GNOGA/whatever make me money without me having to learn or do anythin= g"-guy. > Would it also make sense to copy over the FSF version and start some comm= unity development of it? There seems to be a fair amount of grumbling about= Adacore these days. Honestly, I'd rather do a fresh project rather than deal with having to fix= up someone else's mess (esp WRT licensing) -- that's why I started Byron. > Just a thought... I can't actually help out, I am spread way too thin rig= ht now. Not a problem. But if you know anybody who would be interested, don't hesitate to send the= m my way... it would probably be a lot easier if there were other people in= volved in Byron. >=20 > Best of luck and special thanks to Dmitry, Ludovic, Jacob, Luke, Simon, R= andy, J-P, Bjorn, Brian, Shark8, Mike, Tero and a dozen others for all the = support over the years You're quite welcome.