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From: len@array.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Assembly language (was: Re: Another 1.3 wish.)
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Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 09:56:15 EDT
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Reply-To: len@array.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
Organization: Array Systems Computing, Toronto, Canada
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I could not resist pointing this comment out to the readers of comp.lang.ada.
It seems that the (lack of) credibility of Ada(tm) is simply taken for
granted in some circles.

In article <7197@think.UUCP> barmar@godot.think.com.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:

>I agree with the original poster, the programs (but not the
>algorithms) in Knuth are useless.
          ...
>									If he really wants to include
>programs, but doesn't want people to simply copy them, he could write
>them in pseudocode or Ada(tm).


Len Vanek
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Array Systems Computing
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