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Hyman,

> It's somewhat ironic given this discussion that we've recently
> seen the GNATColl error which caused incorrect string values to
> be inserted into the database! It should serve as a caution to
> those who seamlessly transition from "Ada is immune to entire
> classes of errors prevalent in C++" to "Ada is immune to errors".

Right, but note that this is an *interface* problem which does not 
involve Ada only. I've also seen many problems to have proper 
implementation for filenames with spaces and pathnames with slashes or 
backslash. Quoting the spaces, escaping for the backslashes when passing 
to OS process... Again is that really Ada fault, I would say not but I 
may be biased.

Pascal.

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