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From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>
Subject: Re: Printing Enum Variable Re: Linux World
Date: 1999/03/10
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Dale Stanbrough a �crit dans le message ...

>
>Another thing you could do (it worked for the U.S. Navy!)
>is to realise it is easier to seek forgiveness than permission.
>Write your software in Ada anyway, and then give it to them
>as a completed work! (mind you if i was a manager and you did
>this to me i'ld be inclined to sack you :-).

That is indeed a solution. What amazed me is that you often don't have
to ask to write your software in C/C++ or Java, you just do it because
every body expect this. So just write your next software in Ada.

Pascal.