Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:31:31 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199809101331.JAA19316@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <3.0.1.16.19980910091459.2c97240c@shadow.net> (message from Ralph
	Proctor on Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:14:59)
Subject: Re: Teaching a child to program in C
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> I hope DJ does not suppress this kind of thing. It's time-wasting to
> have to work with a lot of different mail lists, and this is the
> BEST in my opinion.

Why does anyone think I suppress *anything*?  I don't, except that I
don't forward obvious spam or porn through the mail-news gateway.  The
djgpp newsgroup/mailing list is NOT moderated.  I don't block news
posts (in fact, I *can't* since they don't go through my server, since
I don't *have* one - I use my ISP) and I don't delete news posts.
Same for the mailing list, except for obvious spam and porn.

Besides, any discussion about whether or not djgpp is useful for a
particular purpose, and what (if anything) could be built with djgpp
to serve that purpose, is certainly appropriate.  Especially when it's
been noted on many occasions that young people *do* use djgpp to learn
to program, and djgpp-based versions of other "learning languages" are
or could be available.

However, if the topic drifts over to something that is definitely not
related to djgpp, like the details of Microsoft's implementation of
BASIC, then I'd appreciate it if it moved off the djgpp forums.

DJ