BeDevTalk & BeCodeTalk FAQ

This is a list of "Frequently Asked Questions" for the BeDevTalk and BeCodeTalk mailing lists.
These mailing lists are run by Be Inc, for the benefit of the developer community.
This document is not official. Be Inc does not have any involvement in its creation or maintenance. It is the work of one person (me) in an attempt to prevent the regulars on the list from having to repeat the same answers every week. This way we can just say "RTFFAQ" (Read the Fantastic FAQ).
There is one document for both BeDevTalk and BeCodeTalk.
These lists are not the same, and posters should consider carefully which list they ought to post their questions to.
However experience has shown that the same questions tend to appear on both lists, and so, the same FAQs apply.
All the public Be mailing lists are archived on the web. (See L-2).
A large number of the answers given here are actually URLs to these archives
Since these are frequently asked questions, the answers have been repeated many times, and I have no interest in repeating what has already been well said.
For any concerns, requests or recommendations for this FAQ, please send an e-mail to the FAQ author: Tim Vernum