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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Ada student homework ?
Date: 2000/11/08
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In article <3a095057.0@silver.truman.edu>,
  "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Nicolas Brunot" <n.brunot@cadwin.com> wrote in message
> news:3A0952B9.34BE19D1@cadwin.com...
> > Nobody forces you to answer them.
> > I personally wouldn't like to ride on an airplane programmed by
> > R.Dewar who would certainly
> > explained he expected the plane to crash because the compiler
> > behaves as he expects ...
>
> From my observation,
> Dr. Dewar appears to have a very critical eye for detail and a genuine
> concern for correctness.

I'm with Chad on this one. Pedantic people may be an aggrevation to deal
with in personal conversation. We certianly wouldn't choose Dr. Dewar to
be the chief Arab-Israeli negotiator.

But if I had my life on the line, I'd want to use code written by the
most mind-numbingly pedantic person I could find. So even if *I* was a
choice, I'd pick Dewar.

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