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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: PL/SQL -> Ada
Date: 2000/03/28
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In article <38E0EC54.A38F66CE@quadruscorp.com>,
"Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com> wrote:
> BTW: I'd have to agree about the language lawyer types as being a
> negative sell for Ada. While I understand the value of language
...
> sometimes tried to do something which looks perfectly reasonable from
> the programmer's perspective only to have the compiler puke over it
> and get told by the experts "Well the compiler is doing something
> perfectly legal...." Maybe its legal but the law doesn't get the job

I'm not sure I understand this sentiment. If the compiler pukes on
something you do, and someone explains to you why, how is that person a
problem?

I'm sure that the C groups are full of language laywers too. Its just
that they spend all of their time telling people why the code did (or
was allowed to do) the unexpected thing it did, rather than why the
compiler didn't allow something to compile. Given the relative amount of
time to track down those two different kinds of problems, I'd be much
happier with the Ada "lawyers".

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