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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada explanation?
Date: 23 Jan 1995 16:36:26 GMT
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In article <1995Jan19.235443.25311@nosc.mil>, sampson@nosc.mil
(Charles H. Sampson) writes: 

|>      Does this document have any credence in the industry?  (I've never
|> heard of it before, obviously.)  I certainly wouldn't peruse it for any
|> other information, since the author/compiler seems to think that the
|> most important piece of information is hackers' opinions.

Correction:  Not hacker's opinions, but the author's unsupported
assertions about what "hackers are nearly unamimous in observing".  I'd
be willing to bet a month of involuntary servitude on a C++ project that
he never conducted a survey.

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Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com