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From: dweller@dfw.net (David Weller)
Subject: Re: Ada is almost useless in embedded systems
Date: 1996/03/18
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Date: 1996-03-18T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dirk.827148504@demokrit>,
Dirk Dickmanns <dirk@demokrit.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> wrote:
>-- The second argument should be named "by" giving
>Increment(foobar, by => 5);
>-- for those formerly hurt by some assembler's sequence of operands/result,
>-- especially when using an assembler command as name for a function :-)
><picky mode off>
>

I like that.  I've also suggested
	Obj'Inc(Amount) and Obj'Dec(Amount)

The problem is that I heard Digital Equipment Corporation copyrighted
the word DEC :-)

( ^^^^^^  How urban myths are started :-)
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