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- From: lou@cs.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: A Pre-Release FAQ
- Message-ID: <LOU.92Dec30125016@atanasoff.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:50:16 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.042355.10967@netcom.com> <PCG.92Dec29203617@decb.aber.ac.uk>
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- In-reply-to: objsys@netcom.com's message of 30 Dec 92 01:24:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.012400.4233@netcom.com> objsys@netcom.com (Bob Hathaway) writes:
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- In article <PCG.92Dec29203617@decb.aber.ac.uk> (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
- >Gripe about definition of an object.
-
- Your points are well taken. As pointed out by the PRE-DRAFT status
- of the FAQ, I am looking for feedback and expected it to be difficult
- to satisfy everyone, at least at first.
-
- While I understand your objection to the tone of Piercarlo's post, I
- think you may be missing an important point. If you look at other
- groups' FAQ posts, you will find that they focus on objective
- information (where can find free implementations of X, what are common
- bugs in Y, what are good books on Z...). More philosophical /
- perspective issues like "what is an object" are pretty much immune to
- concensus. It is not simply "difficult to satisfy everyone at first",
- it is impossible to satisfy everyone, period, because people have
- flatly irreconcilable ideas.
-
- Furthermore, an FAQ is (as the name implies) meant to answer frequently
- asked questions. It's goal is to save time and net bandwidth by
- providing answers to questions that otherwise would get asked on the
- newsgroup. The questions you answer don't seem like the kind of thing
- I've been seeing people ask here. (Although people *have* asked "what
- is a good book to read as an introduction to objects." and that is
- the kind of thing an FAQ usually answers.)
-
- I suggest that you go through, or at least think back on, the last N
- months of messages and find what questions really are (a) frequently
- asked and (b) amenable to a concensus answer.
- --
- Lou Steinberg
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