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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.prolog
Subject: functional and object-oriented language newsgroups
Message-ID: <1783@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Oct 88 16:28:08 GMT
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A few weeks ago I tentatively suggested forming newsgroups to discuss
object-oriented and functional languages and programming, without tying these
to specific existing languages.  I got a fair bit of mail about this (nearly
all enthusiastic) but not so much as to suggest that a vote would succeed at
the moment.  I got a newsgroup created recently, so I think I can judge how
replies to a feeler translate into votes.

So I withdraw the proposal, and suggest we use comp.lang.misc for these in the
meanwhile, trying again in six months to a year or so.  From the steady
increase in postings about stuff like OODBs and CLOS, critical mass shouldn't
be much further in the future.  Some people suggested that we need a third
group for logic languages; perhaps by then there will be enough non-Prolog
logic language activity to merit it.

Meanwhile there are the Eiffel, functional (not very active, this one - I
suspect hardly anyone knows about it) and CLP mailing lists; and comp.theory
for stuff like type systems.

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