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From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
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Subject: Re: A little smile...
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:45:54 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jun 16, 12:43=A0am, MRE <Marc.Enzm...@web.de> wrote:
> On 16 Jun., 03:40, "Brian" <phaedrus...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > <snip>> =A0 "Used without discipline, C++ can lead to code that is
> > > incomprehensible, unmaintainable, inextensible, inefficient, and just
> > > plain wrong." -- Scott Meyers, Effective C++
>
> > </snip>
>
> > "Used WITH discipline, =A0same thing!" -- Brian Salter, Defective C++
>
> Could this be an approach to improving Ada's popularity? Tell
> everybody, that
> usage of Ada can wreak havoc and is restricted only to REAL
> programmers? ;-)

It might help, but it wouldn't be enough.  I think we'd also have to
eliminate all the keywords and replace them with sequences of
punctuation characters.  :)

                          -- Adam