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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: File name conventions for Ada units
Message-ID: <1212:Oct1108:59:2390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 08:59:23 GMT
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In article <920035@hpclapd.HP.COM> defaria@hpclapd.HP.COM (Andy DeFaria) writes:
> IMHO, you should be  able  to say: ada  sourcefile and the
> compiler should look for "sourcefile" first  and then "sourcefile.ada" next

The beauty of this system being that if sourcefile is ever removed
accidentally, you end up using sourcefile.ada even if it is entirely
different. This contributes greatly to bug concealment, unreliability,
and other software engineering techniques.

---Dan