This is a Call For Votes on a new group 'comp.lang.pop' (unmoderated).
The RFD was posted on August 24. There has been support in both news.groups
and the popforum mailing list.
The only discussion has been about the name. comp.lang.pop has been
retained (as opposed to c.l.pop11 or c.l.poplog) as this gives the group a
more general coverage.
The only change to the group description has been to extend it to cover
"Pop11 like" languages (the full charter is included below).
In accordance with guidelines, votes should be unambiguous and should only
address this single issue. Two separate aliases have been set up for the vote
taking process.
YES votes should be of the form:
To: ·······@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Subject: I vote YES to comp.lang.pop
NO votes should be of the form:
To: ······@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Subject: I vote NO to comp.lang.pop
Voting is now open and will finish at 12 midnight (GMT), Saturday 24th October
Ian Rogers
Plug Treasurer
---- comp.lang.pop Charter ----------------------------------------------
The group would serve for discussions on the programming language Pop11, and
related environments, libraries, languages and the Plug User Group.
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), and how it relates to other languages of this type
(e.g. GLOW, Pepper).
Also relevant would be conversations about the Poplog programming environment
and its libraries. Eg.
OOP in Pop11 Flavours, or objectclass etc. and how they relate to other
OOP languages (C++, CLOS 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.
The group would be gatewayed, at Univ. of Sussex, onto the mailing list for
the industrial members with no internet access.
--
Ian Rogers - Research Fellow type dogsbody person :)
School of Cognitive Science, Sussex University, Falmer, Brighton, UK
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