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From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
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"chris.danx" wrote:
> 
> What is positive/negative logic?

Negative logic contains negations (not x). Positive logic does not.
Studies indicate that people understand positive logic better than
negative logic.

> Oh, so Ada might have ended up wirth no while had there been no concern for
> translation between Ada and other languages?

Possibly. You'd have to ask Jean Ichbiah.

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Jeffrey Carter