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Robert Dewar wrote:
> I am completely unconvinced by the MI claim 
Me too - first you have to get 'em to the stage where they
might even notice there is no MI.

Also, Java would be a sorry language without interfaces, but with
Ada there is usually another (often better) way, e.g. generics.