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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 18:58:42 +0200
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Jean-Pierre Rosen writes:
> Ada is for industrial projects [...] Why do the software people
> believe that they should be able to use a new language just by a
> trial-and-error process?

I have seen many software people develop software by trial and error.
Not many software people are software engineers.

Sad but true.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.