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Randy Brukardt wrote:
> Nice try, but he's using Ada.Text_IO.Get_Line, which takes a fixed
> length string. So he pretty much has to use a fixed size buffer.

I was commenting on code in general, not his specifically.
But in any case, what kind of an attitude is this? "We're
going to do it wrong because the language primitives make
it easier to do it that way."?