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Date: 15 Apr 93 18:01:10 GMT
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t.ins.cwru.edu!cert.org!news.sei.cmu.edu!firth@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU  (Robert Fir
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Subject: Re: Ichbiah's Letter
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In article <C5J0I4.Dn1@crdnns.crd.ge.com> groleau@e7sa.crd.ge.com (Wes Groleau 
X7574) writes:

>I presume you are pointing out that the trailing underscore makes hideous
>code legal.  Well, surprise!  Hideous code has always been legal in every
>language!

I beg to differ.  The point was not that Ada allowed one to write hideous
and unmaintainable code.  the point was that the 9X team had created an
upward incompatibility, and their recommended workaround was the creation
of hideous and unmaintainable code.