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From: munck@Mill-Creek-Systems.com (Bob Munck)
Subject: Re: What is ADA?
Date: 1999/02/23
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On Mon, 22 Feb 1999 13:57:33 GMT, robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote:

>Ada is about writing large programs.
>
>Small programs have almost nothing to do with large
>programs.

And note that there seems to be a great deal less writing
of large programs these days.   Programmers using
"visual" programming tools are mostly writing very small,
coding-course-homework-size methods and event handlers.

I'm not sure we really _need_ Y2K to destroy civilization.

Bob Munck
Mill Creek Systems LC