jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin) (10/26/88)
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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