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Am Freitag, 2. September 2016 14:05:24 UTC+2 schrieb Maciej Sobczak:
> Then somebody else must have written the Ada code that I can see now, whi=
ch is so heavily attached to the hardware (including packing of pointer val=
ues in record fields of forced sizes) that it is probably easier to rewrite=
 it than port to any other target.
> Language is a tool, you still need good engineering principles to use it =
properly.

You're absolutely right. A good language does not force people to write goo=
d code.

I've seen code like this:

I: Integer;
...
if I in Integer then ...