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Date: 29 Sep 92 20:21:24 GMT
From: munnari.oz.au!ariel!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!brt.deakin.edu.au!dougcc@tcg
ould.tn.cornell.edu  (Douglas Miller)
Subject: Re: Ada's (in)visibility
Message-ID: <1992Sep29.152124.8143@brt.deakin.edu.au>
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In article <244.237.uupcb@nitelog.com>, michael.hagerty@nitelog.com
(Michael Hagerty) writes:

> The most coneheaded response I've heard to the question, "Why didn't you
> do it in Ada, the mandated language?" was, "We had to be compatible with
> X-windows, 

I suppose their documentation for Xlib calls used C syntax, so they think
this means they have to use C?  Coneheaded indeed.

> It seems that all the excuses are like a**holes; everyone has one and
> they all stink...

How true...