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Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:00:28 -0500
From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
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On 2/17/2011 5:50 PM, J-P. Rosen wrote:
> Le 17/02/2011 17:29, Hyman Rosen a �crit :
>> There in a nutshell is what all language wars come to:
>> My favorite language has powerful features which could
>> be misused, but no one would do that. Your favorite
>> language has unfortunate features which render all
>> programs written in it unreliable and incomprehensible.
> This is not fair: in any language, you can have misleading names. On
> this point, Ada is just like all other ones.

Well, you could forbid rebinding names from the standard library,
or even any already-bound name. Wouldn't that be safer?

> But macro-processing was forbidden by the requirements for Ada -
 > for good reasons.

You should find this amusing, then: <http://russp.org/Ada-syntax.html>