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Subject: Re: Ada.Strings.Bounded
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:36:52 +0100
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On 23/04/2008 16:12, in article
62dde2ab-d6ad-454b-aa87-8dbc23855903@v23g2000pro.googlegroups.com, "Adam
Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote:

> On Apr 23, 3:42 am, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
> wrote:
> 
>> Without of course knowing why the choices were made the
>> way they were made for the LRM, my conclusion is that
>> many programmers still prefer high school ideas about
>> numbers over the theory of computer numbers.
> 
> Nahhh, we just want to write programs that work, and have a language
> that helps prevent us from making stupid errors, but without forcing
> us to waste time writing needless junk in order to have things fit
> more consistently into some "theory".  Remember, "theory" is our
> servant, not our master.

Bravo!
-- 
Bill Findlay
<surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk