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From: Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Is an RTOS Required for Ada?
Date: 1999/05/28
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In article <7imvsr$5bg$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
	Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:

>In article <374EC6EA.61519FAF@praxis-cs.co.uk>,
>  Rod Chapman <rod@praxis-cs.co.uk> wrote:
>> Robert Dewar wrote:
>> >
>> My normal rule-of-thumb is "no surprises" 
>
>I don't think we can write into a standard that the code must
>not surprise Rod Chapman :-)
>
 Somebody once suggested including a DWIM function in every
 language.  Each potentially surprising construct could be
 be coerced by the DWIM function.  DWIM is an acronym
 for "Do what I mean!".  

 Richard Riehle
 richard@adaworks.com
 http://www.adaworks.com