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Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
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Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message news:<ufzo91fww.fsf@nasa.gov>...
> > And the trouble is, you don't get anything really worthwhile out of
> > all the time you spend on mastering all that syntax. You would have
> > been better off mastering concepts instead.
> 
> Right; concepts like "slice" :).

Uh, I meant something a little deeper...

(In fact, that was my whole point!)