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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/11/02
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In article <7vnhov$g0k$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <7vnf6c$e03$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> > For the MAC, I'd imagine an effort equivalent to cygwin
> > (cygmac?) would remove >=%80 of the problem.
>
> 80% /= 100% !!!!
>
> Any solution that does not permit the *possibility* of scripts,
> makefiles etc where appropriate is too broken to consider for
> serious development. Yes, that falls in your 20% but that is
> an important 20%!

..If you are talking just the cygwin API part I suppose. I was thinking
about the whole cygwin project, which also ported sh, bash and make.

So can I take it from your reply that you think the number is actually
significantly larger than %80? :-)

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