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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Subject: Re: Ada vs C++
Date: 1997/09/08
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"James B. White, III (Trey)" <trey@osc.edu> writes:
>Ada may have advantages over C++, but only C++ allows these incredibly
>powerful programming techniques.

False.  Lisp people know this kind of meta-programming as a very old
technique indeed.

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