Here's the original call for discussion posted by Ian Rogers of Sussex
University. I hope this will answer some of the most obvious questions
about the intentions for this newsgroup. There definitely needs to be
a FAQ list. If anyone wants to start the ball-rolling on this, I'm
happy to act as coordinator. The first FAQ is "What is POP?"; answers on
a postcard to this group ....
Steve
Ian's post follows:
> The group would serve for discussions on the programming language Pop11, and
> related environments and libraries.
>
> Relevant topics, in this group, would cover all aspects of Pop11 programming
> (from novice questions to expert efficiency issues) and the current BSI
> standards effort (Pop9x).
>
> Also relevant would be conversations about the Poplog programming environment
> and its libraries. Eg.
>
> OOP in Pop11 Flavours, or objectclass etc.
> X windows hacking in Pop11
> Mixed language programming (eg. between Lisp/Pop11/Prolog/ML/C etc.) that
> is supported in Poplog but isn't relevant for discussion in other, pure
> language, groups
> Techniques for Artificial Intelligence programming (it is an AI language
> after all :)
>
> and so on.
>
> These sorts of discussions have so far been supported by a mailing list. But
> the list is now far too unwieldy (>400 members). Universities are a constant
> hassle for the mailing list, with students leaving and joining all the time. A
> news group would serve these people much better.
>
> Bandwidth is quite low.
>
> The group would be gatewayed, at Univ. of Sussex, onto the mailing list for
> the industrial members with no internet access.
>
> We seem to have done things backwards. We have a user group (Plug), an archive
> server, conferences and a standards effort, but no news group. I hope to
> rectify this :-)
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