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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: A Modest Defense of ACT (though they are big boys and can take
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Date: 1999/02/22
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Date: 1999-02-22T00:00:00+00:00
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dewar@gnat.com writes:

> Indeed, despite the occasional frustration over junk in
> CLA, this newsgroup is in fact in FAR better shape than
> many of the other comp.lang groups, a tribute to the good
> taste of Ada programmers and enthusiasts! It is also nice
> to see, with rare exceptions, that we very rarely get
> completely Ada-irrelevant posts, so the signal-to-noise
> ratio stays high. Indeed even the extensive C++ vs Ada vs
> .. language "war" thread recently remained remarkably
> productive, especially with respect to contributions from
> CLA participants


I'll second this emotion.  I read CLA every day, and always look forward
to posts from Robert Dewar, Bob Eachus, Bob Duff, and Tucker Taft, from
whom I learned much about the finer points of Ada95, language design,
and programming in general.

I also post frequently on CLA, and hope that in some small way, I've
contributed more to signal than to noise.

Matt