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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:59:01 +0200
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On 23.09.13 09:00, Bill Richards wrote:
> Ada
> is about order, planning, design and then implementation, doing things
> correctly with a long term view and thinking about the next guy or guys
> who'll maintain it.

Your description of what Ada is about sounds very much like a description
of planned economy in Stalinist states of not long ago. 8-)


(Reading this kind of argument, a reader may associate Ada with some
extraneous assumptions, all non-technical, politically heated, that likely
keep Ada out of this readers mind. So, I do hope they notice "rant" at
least.)