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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <jacob@jacob-sparre.dk>
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Subject: Re: State of the compiler market
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Georg <bauhaus@notmyhomepage.invalid> wrote:

> While at removing the string mess, remove strings altogether!

Interesting point.  While I think I can follow you, I still think we
would need to have quite a lot of string-like types in the language
anyway (file names, directory names, host names, user-entered
characters, user-readable characters, XML, HTML, Ada identifiers, Ada
comments, Ada source file lines, ...).

Greetings,

Jacob
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