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- From: val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kartchner)
- Subject: Re: Lets split comp.lang.ada into multiple groups to confine flames
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.180319.16498@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 18:03:19 GMT
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- In article 62879@mimsy.umd.edu, alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
- >make comp.lang.ada obsolete and create a small set of groups instead.
- >
- .. comp.lang.advocacy, comp.lang.programmer, comp.lang.announce,
- .. comp.lang.misc (all for Ada discussions)
-
- This is definitely an ethnocentric view of programming languages, isn't it?
- Or, did you forget the ":-)"?
-
- In <EACHUS.92Dec18133934@oddjob.mitre.org> eachus@oddjob.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes:
- : If this is becomming a serious proposal, the names should be
- : comp.lang.ada.programmer, etc. However comp.lang.advocacy might be
- : more appropriate than having a separate group for each language. (Of
- : course, as soon as this is mentioned in news.groups, the C and C++
- : groups will play keep up with the Jones.)
-
- There simply isn't enough volume in the comp.lang.ada group to really
- consider this. Since there is at least twice the volume in each of the
- comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++ groups, it will be sooner justified there
- than here.
-
- Nevertheless, the comp.lang.advocacy group does have some merit. It should
- be used when discussions degenerate from simply correction of facts.
-
- mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- > Sounds good to me. It would let me read the stuff I want to read
- > without having people in each group trying to tell me how "language X
- > is better than language Y", and people who WANT to do that could go to
- > comp.lang.advocacy. ...
- >...
- > [There seem to be fewer of these 'my language is better/your language
- > is crap' wars in the C/C++ groups than I've seen in the Ada group.
- > Not sure why that is, precisely.]
-
- I could speculate. Could it be "Napoleon Syndrome"?
-
- Or could it be...
- > "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- > in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
-
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