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From: holden@cca.UUCP (Russ Holden)
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Subject: Re: ForTran-Ada + flamette + question
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Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 08:39:27 EDT
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> In article <503@noscvax.UUCP> broman@noscvax.UUCP (Vincent P. Broman) writes:
> >A generic quadrature package mispleases because separate copies of
> >it must be instantiated for each function to be integrated.
> 
> Please DON'T confuse Ada with its current implementations.  There is
> no reason that the bodies of a generic quadrature package cannot be
> shared.  Just because current implementations don't do it (YET!!!),
> don't damn Ada.
> 

Right, don't damn Ada for silly things when there are so many real
reasons to do so!

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Russell Holden
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