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From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Papers saying Ada as an overly complex language and hard to
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Date: 1998/02/23
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Furthermore, as a result of his search, he designed an entire new
programming language which solved all the problems cited in the papers.
Unfortunately, he died, and all that was found was a cryptic comment in the
margin of his notebook saying "I have a wonderful solution for this" ;-)

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    The oceans teem with myriad fishes:
    The land and air are with creatures rife.
    The world is filled with endless complexity;
    This is the simple truth of life. [NJR]

  *** Ada: The Language for a Complex World ***

Robert Dewar wrote in message ...
>Luis said
>
><<Maybe these four papers don't exists at all. This reminds me of Fermat's
>Last Theorem;
>he claimed that he had the solution for the problem, yet never published.
>Did he really had it?
>Do these four papers exists at all?
>
>Luis Espinal.
>>>
>
>
>Probably the questioner is no longer around. He was tasked by his boss
>to find papers critical of Ada, he found some, and his job is done :-)