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Sender: "Team Ada: Ada Advocacy Issues (83 & 95)" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:17:41 -0700
Reply-To: Hal Hart <[log in to unmask]>
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Colin Paul Gloster <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Well who's this!? I was reading some of a website on how to write
> unmaintainable code ("How to Write Unmaintainable Code",
> HTTP://mindprod.com/unmain.html) and found this:
>
> "2.Avoid Ada: About 20% of these techniques can't be used in Ada. Refuse
> to use Ada. If your manager presses you, insist that no-one else uses it,
> and point out that it doesn't work with your large suite of tools like lint and plummer
> that work around C's failings."

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