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From: Oleg Goodyckov <og@videoproject.kiev.ua>
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Subject: Re: FAQ and string functions
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:20:38 +0300
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On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:11:46AM +0000, Darren New wrote:
> Robert A Duff wrote:
> > Yeah, but in Ada you have to implement it
> > Suppose I'm writing a long-lived application that does string fiddling.
> 
> If you're writing a long-lived application, the time it takes to write the
> string-fiddling subroutines (once) is minor.

"Long-lived" or "long-writting"? In second case I'll agree with you.
People who earns long money along long time can allow himself to write
(once) some additional packages (and improve them in all rest of time) and
time to writting that will minor in compare to life time.

But it is a bit more acceptable to use somthing a bit more usable by
other. One head - good, two - better. Or no?