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From: Andrew Lynch <lynch@cci.de>
Subject: Re: Comm. acm bug
Date: 1997/06/20
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Date: 1997-06-20T00:00:00+00:00
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Peter Hermann wrote:
> I was badly amused looking at the April'97 issue of Communication of the acm:
> Topic: The Debugging Scandal and What To Do About It.
> I nearly felt the dedication to 20-year-aged debugging practice
> of a whole issue being a scandal in the light of Ada.
> Of course, Ada was not even mentioned in this reputed magazine.


The April'97 issue of ACM SIGPLAN notices has an "interesting" article
on the history of Ada:

"Garbage In/Garbage Out
I Have a Feeling We're Not in Emerald City Anymore"
by Henry G.Baker

I really enjoyed reading it! (I just hope it isn't all true... ;-)

Andrew.

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