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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Do people who use Ada also use ocaml or F#?
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:16:03 -0700, Jeffrey Carter wrote:

> On 10/29/2010 12:53 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>
>> In any case I would like to see Ada without generics, which cause a messy
>> design, are fundamentally non-testable and unmaintainable.
> 
> I'd like to see Ada without any features for programming by extension.

That is not same. For all type extension does not lock your design as
generics do. Once generic, forever generic.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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