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From: jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter)
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Subject: Re: A Pascal Subset of Ada (was: Why Ada is Failing Socially)
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Date: 25 Jun 91 20:19:58 GMT
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>One of the biggest mistakes of AJPO (or whoever made the decision) was to
>disallow Ada subsets.  I think they should have allowed ONE subset, 
>corresponding roughly to Pascal and including packages.

There was no need--Modula-2 already existed... ;-)
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