Kevin said:
The newsgroup serves discussion of a programming language.
Yes, a LANGUAGE. Not any library written in or for it, except for the
standard library, since it's part of the language.
See
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/how-to-post.html#faq-5.9 which
is part of the official FAQ to this group (and one should actually
always have a look into the FAQ of a group or at least read a bit in
that group before posting)
Naturally, people are going to want to know how to implement the
language in different manners. More or less, Michael was asking
what libraries were available to help him in what he wanted to do.
That hasn't anything to do with implementing the language, so what's
your point?
I don't see any reason why he should get any blame for doing this.
He didn't get blame. He was politely told that his question is off-topic
here and redirected to a more appropriate place. Some consider this to
be blame, but it's not, and it's not meant to be.
Similarly, he should be able to post the same thing in a MIDI
newsgroup because it involves people who have experience
with the group who could possibly provide him some insight.
Usenet isn't built upon posting questions to places where people seem to
be likely to know the answer, but upon topics. This makes it easier to
select and read the newsgroups that you're most interested in without
getting to much "noise" that is actually not what you're interested in.
And most newsgroups have a welcome message and/or FAQ that exactly
tells you what the topic of the group is, since it's not always
obvious.
I'd certainly welcome such questions more than the overdone "Is C++
better than C" posts. Let me again point out that this newsgroup is
for the language C++.
Yes, and _only_ for the language itself.
The newsgroup name does not imply anything about ONLY discussing
standard C++.
It does. the "lang" in the name means that it's about the language
itself, not about OS-specific libraries or other extensions to it. And
the language C++ is defined by the ISO standard. Also, the welcome
message that is posted here regularly (and btw. was posted today - see
It was kind of you to point out other newsgroups that
may help him better, but who made you the CLC++ police?
Would you prefer if nobody at all answers a question if it's off-topic
instead of helping the OP to find a better place for it?