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From: Marin David Condic <mcondic@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:23:47 -0500
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Robert Dewar wrote:

> Actually if anything, I get more worried by people pulling
> out all the stops and mixing discriminants, private types,
> generics, tagged types etc in frighteningly ambitious
> combinations :-)

It is quite common to see people who have maybe taken an initial
training course in Ada and are then given a large system to write go off
and start declaring types for everything on the planet, etc. And what
exactly is wrong with the type "Integer"? :-)

I suppose its natural human tendency to do this. We learn about a new
tool and then get eager to use it and have to learn from experience when
*not* to use it.

MDC
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