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From: jperry@UNIX.SRI.COM (John Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Language discussion
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Date: Thu, 28-May-87 14:05:30 EDT
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     I understand why you want to keep INFO-APPLE free for apple-related
discussion.  The problem, however, with INFO-ADA, INFO-C, INFO-MODULA-2,
and INFO-PASCAL is that these netmail lists are largely "tips and tricks"
lists for those interested in that language only.  If you wrote a
controversial message to INFO-C about why you think Modula-2 is a better
language, it is quite possible that the manager of that netmail list
will send you a polite memo saying that if you think Modula-2 is a
superior language then you ought to belong to the INFO-MODULA-2
mailing list and keep INFO-C free for information only.
     Thus, I don't see a better forum for broad-based language discussions
than INFO-IBMPC or INFO-APPLE i.e. netmail lists based on a type of
computer which has available compilers for ALL languages.  If you really
believe that this discussion is not "relevant to a broad set of Apple
users" then I will respect your wishes and move to INFO-C (which Arpanet
computer is it on, as well as INFO-MODULA-2??) and stir up a hornets nest
there.  However, given that several Apple list members have responded to
my memos (and my memos were in response to a non-Apple-related memo on
INFO-APPLE), it seems at least possible that many INFO-APPLE members feel
that this discussion is relevant right here.



                                                John Perry