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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada 83 - Sometimes still chosen
Date: 1999/03/26
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In article <36fbe743.5372929@news.pacbell.net>, tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) writes:
>>If they fail to specify the 
>> version of Ada...
> If an elementary school student asks you "is the moon round" the
> appropriate answer is "yes".  But if a spacecraft designer asks you
> the same question, the answer is something like "approximately, but
> with such and such deviations".

Whereas through internet newsgroups you can hear that the moon is closer
to a sphere than to a circle :-)

Larry Kilgallen