Re: PL/I is not viable

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> "William M. Klein" <wmklein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> <snip irrelevant complaints>
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> When I stopped posted after the lengthy WordCounts exercise (using BIBLE.TXT
> file) back in March,
> which with its cross-posted topics (including yours) had about 300 replies,
> the interest in this newsgroup then dropped until finally in July there was
> only 1 new topic opened with 1 reply.
<snip>

Yes, I (and as far as I can tell everyoje else) would MUCH prefer you leaving so
that the PL/I newsgroup could be sufficiently "quiet" for a sufficiently long
time that people would start coming back to it for PL/I issues (as there were a
few during the time you didn't post).

Do you see ANY real evidence that your posts (that cause "negative reaction")
are viewed as useful by
- any PL/I programmer?
- by any Fortran programmer?
- by any new programmer?
- by any experienced programmer?

If not, then why do you think we would WANT you to waste newsgroup bandwidth?

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com


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