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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor (Was: why ada is so unpopular ?)
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>But the real problem here is version control is at too large a granule.
>There is no reason for it to be done at the file level; it would be better
>to do it at the level of "pieces", where the actual file that is compiled is
  My impression (having never used it) was that the Rational environment
offered that.  If so, how did it work out?