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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:44:13 -0600
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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <warren@ve3wwg.tk> wrote in message
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> Perhaps we "lowly programmers" need to ditch Ada, and reinvent
> our own flavour of the same. After all, only "lowly programmers"
> would need to worry about such dirty things as portability.

Everyone has to worry about portability. But "software engineers" use CM and
design to manage the problem, rather than trying to sweep it under a rug.
Conditional compilation, if present, would be used in very, very restricted
circumstances.

             Randy.