Re: Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks

[dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)]

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You will notice that a long thread now, mostly discussing the issues of
error detection in Ada and C, has had the above inflammatory subject,
inherited from the original GA post. Now of course, many of us posting
in this thread don't agree at all with the premise of the subject (I
certainly don't), but I hesitate to change the subject since this will
make it harder for some folks to follow the thread in thread reading
news readers.

It's an old trick in the newsgroup world to editorialize like this in
subject lines, but it's really rather poor netiquette. It's better to
post a neutral subject line (e.g. in this case leave of the stinks), and
keep the flaming to the body of the text. That way we don't get misleading
subject lines as the thread extends.

Greg, we know from the author the tone of the message in advance anyway, so
could you please try to use more neutral subjects. I think it will help the
tone of discourse. Certainly it would be nice if others will follow this
simple rule!