ANN: Dao, the official 1.0 version is released

[Terry Reedy]

Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
>>> This is to announce the first official release of Dao.
>>>
>>> Dao is a simple yet powerful object-oriented programming language
>> So, you pimp your language in news groups for other languages?  I see
>> your off topic post in 3 language groups I frequent, that's not the way
>> to get interest in your language.
> 
> Why this hostility?

Why your hostility to people asking questions and making comments and 
statements in response to a boilerplate announcement?

> The guy has worked on an interesting piece of
> software and tries to promote it to people who are most probably
> interested in programming languages. What's wrong with that? 

There are probably a hundred other 'interesting pieces of software' that 
could be announced here.  What the OP make no attempt to do was craft a 
post actually directed to this particular group.  Something like 'It has 
the following influences from Python...' or 'Here is how it compares to 
Python...'.  Either would have made it a communication rather than a 
blind broadcast.

 > Some
> people occasionally ask general computer/linux/IT/etc questions simply
> because they think that the probability of finding somebody among
> python list followers who knows the answer (and is willing to share
> his/her knowledge) is high and since the topic is
> computer/linux/IT/etc it's not super far from things which are
> explicitly on topic.

Mostly those are people who have posted Python questions and comments 
before and otherwise are people planning to implement the answer in 
Python.

> No need for any hatred or hostility towards people who write a new
> programming language,

I did not see any such thing.  The mild hostility was directed at the 
act of blind spamming, which we have had more than enough of.

Terry