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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.
Date: 1999/09/29
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In article <7srb3r$8a21@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
  dvdeug@x8b4e53cd. (David Starner) wrote:
> It was meaningful.

No, sorry, from a technical point of view, the comparison was
useless, since there are no valid conclusions that can be
drawn from a comparison done in this way, other than

program a is x long
program b is y long

Any attempt to generalize from this will be meaningless


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