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[ESR]

> Strangely enough my impression of him is that he thinks that terseness
> is the same as efficiency.

In fact, did this guy really _program_ something ?

> It is impossible to convince him that the wordiness of ada boost
> productivity. Perhaps this has something to do with his - in my not very
> humble opinion- rather simplistic political beliefs.

Maybe he is just too old. I'm not age-racist, but with computing
persons suddenly block, that for the rest of their life. Some "halt"
instruction happened with him between a PDP-10 and a dusty C or COBOL
compiler...
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