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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,42490cad53ee37fa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!hermod.ttsg.com!news-out.ntli.net!newsrout1-gui.ntli.net!ntli.net!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe2-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Dr. Adrian Wrigley" Subject: Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada? User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <87f5a614.0503121108.5b245eaf@posting.google.com> <87f5a614.0503130444.66e658e4@posting.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:29:53 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.100.88.147 X-Complaints-To: http://www.ntlworld.com/netreport X-Trace: newsfe2-gui.ntli.net 1110767393 81.100.88.147 (Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:29:53 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:29:53 GMT Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9349 Date: 2005-03-14T02:29:53+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 02:11:33 +0000, Ed Falis wrote: > Perhaps it's better to wait for the final document to be published? On the contrary! One of the reasons for leaks is to allow outsiders to comment on plans before they are committed to. If a document is officially released, changing it may be politically sensitive and/or slow. Much more convenient to listen to the backlash from a leaked draft, deny the plans, fix them and release the "final" document with the bugs fixed. This makes commenting on leaked drafts a good idea! Here in Britain, deliberate leaks seem to be a major part of government policymaking. With NOACE however, I think we'd be whistling in the wind. -- Adrian