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From: Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk>
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On 4 Dec 2020, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote (in 
article<rqehuk$9pr$1@dont-email.me>):

> "[O]ne can look forward to a rapid and widespread improvement in programming
> practice, both from those who use the language [Ada] and from those who study
> its concepts and structures."
> C. A. R. Hoare

I have great *personal* appreciation of that declaration!

-- 
Bill Findlay