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From: Jeff Carter <jrcarter001@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Function name problem
Date: 2000/01/17
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The Ada design team was certainly familiar with Algol 68, which does
allow user-defined operator symbols. It's one of the reasons user-
defined operator symbols are not part of Ada.

FWIW, Bjarne's favorite language before he designed C++ was Algol 68.
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