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From: Peter Amey <peter.amey@praxis-cs.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Abstract methods in ADA95
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:03:58 +0100
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[snip]
> Bah.  Subprogram, Procedure, method, routine, subroutine, function,
> script, etc.
> All essentially the same thing.
> The only only one I object to is "function", which means something
> in maths that is perverted by C and Ada and many others.
> 
but not, of course, in SPARK where a function really is a function ;-)

Peter