Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
This is to announce the first official release of Dao.
Dao is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language
So, you pimp your language in news groups for other languages? I see
your off topic post in 3 language groups I frequent, that's not the way
to get interest in your language.
Why this hostility?
Why your hostility to people asking questions and making comments and
statements in response to a boilerplate announcement?
The guy has worked on an interesting piece of
software and tries to promote it to people who are most probably
interested in programming languages. What's wrong with that?
There are probably a hundred other 'interesting pieces of software' that
could be announced here. What the OP make no attempt to do was craft a
post actually directed to this particular group. Something like 'It has
the following influences from Python...' or 'Here is how it compares to
Python...'. Either would have made it a communication rather than a
blind broadcast.
> Some
people occasionally ask general computer/linux/IT/etc questions simply
because they think that the probability of finding somebody among
python list followers who knows the answer (and is willing to share
his/her knowledge) is high and since the topic is
computer/linux/IT/etc it's not super far from things which are
explicitly on topic.
Mostly those are people who have posted Python questions and comments
before and otherwise are people planning to implement the answer in
Python.
No need for any hatred or hostility towards people who write a new
programming language,
I did not see any such thing. The mild hostility was directed at the
act of blind spamming, which we have had more than enough of.
Terry
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