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From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)
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Subject: Re: Ada.strings.bounded problems?
Date: 11 Feb 1995 09:58:25 -0600
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In article <3h8kqr$led@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>,
Norman H. Cohen <ncohen@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>|> One other nice feature -- we get rid of the oxymoronic term
>|> "passive task" ;-).  (I know ... "oxymoron" is supposed to
>|> be used for "poetic" juxtapositions only...).
>
>But to make up for it, Ada 95 introduces a child of package Ada.Numerics
>named Complex_Elementary_Functions. ;-)
>

Kinda reminds me of an early college torture class with a deceptive
name: Ordinary Differential Equations.

I never noticed anything "ordinary" about them :-)


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