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From: Bill Findlay <findlaybill@blueyonder.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ichbiah 2022 compiler mode
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:49:44 +0200
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On 5 Sep 2024, Jeffrey R.Carter wrote
(in article <vbcccj$a13q$1@dont-email.me>):

> "[T]he language [Ada] incorporates many excellent structural
> features which have proved their value in many precursor
> languages ..."
> C. A. R. Hoare

And he continued:

"one can look forward to a rapid and widespread improvement in programming 
practice,
both from those who use the language and from those who study its concepts 
and structures."

I am familiar with this, as one of the authors of the book
that contains that foreword. 8-)
-- 
Bill Findlay