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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:23:16 -0800
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Bill Findlay wrote:

> It's the curly-bracket languages you've had foisted on you in CS3!
> They rot the brain!

Well, I've mentioned this before as a cautionary issue, but reports are
coming in of an impending world-wide shortage of curly braces.  Soon,
languages that depend on curly braces will run out of this essential
resource, and other languages will have to fill in the gap.  :-)

Richard Riehle