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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: children
Date: 26 Mar 1995 06:56:25 -0500
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Date: 1995-03-26T06:56:25-05:00
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OK, Eachus works in an environment where this kind of control is required,
but his configuration management system is incompetent and cannot provide
this kind of support.

We can't do *everything* a CM does in Ada. The question is always how far
to go. There is therefore no principle involved here, just a matter of
practicalities and pragmatic convenience. After all if you have no CM at
all the discussion is silly, since you can always edit the source and
remove the pragma anyway.