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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:47:26 -0500
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Date: 2011-02-08T13:47:26-05:00
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On 2/8/2011 1:30 PM, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> I once worked on an Ada project that had been done by C people.
 > The package specs were badly formatted collections of declarations
> with no comments; the developers viewed them as header files that
 > no one would read. There were minimal comments in the bodies, and
> everyone was expected to read the body code to understand how to
 > use the operations.

Ah, now I understand. No true Scotsman would write bad Ada!