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From: Bob Mathis <73313.2671@COMPUSERVE.COM>
Subject: Re: Two ideas for the next Ada Standard
Date: 1996/09/04
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Date: 1996-09-04T00:00:00+00:00
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Bob Duff, in talking about Robert Dewar, said,

>I suspect he has two keyboards on his desk, and fixes bugs in GNAT with
>his right hand, while simultaneously posting to comp.lang.ada with his
>left hand.

A year ago Robert and I were in Frankfurt, Germany, and I was showing off my new
ThinkPad and how Compuserve connected to the Web. Robert asked if he could
Telnet to his home computer to read his mail. That was easy. Then he asked if he
might stay while the rest of us went back to a conference session. A couple of
hours later I went back to check on him and found him actually doing what Bob
Duff guessed about. Robert had my computer doing e-mail and his own ThinkPad
next to it doing a recompilation of some part of GNAT.

-- Bob Mathis