Re: Ada Stuff and some confusion

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

"Mark Lundquist" <mark@rational.com> wrote in message
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> About the original saying ("The lawyer who represents himself...")... Does
> that apply to "language lawyers" or what?
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I would then have to ask, "Who is the client of a Language Lawyer"? Probably
a compiler. If the language lawyer is arguing in defense of his own
compiler - that may make his motivation suspect, but does that make his
client a fool? The lawyer should, after all, be rational and pragmatic about
the case and a client who has a lawyer with a different agenda is not well
served. But given the "inanimate object" aspects of the situation, I find it
hard to translate.

"The Language Lawyer who represents his own compiler has a Piece Of Crap for
a client."

Does that fly better? :-)

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