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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Porting ADA source
Date: 19 Jul 2004 15:03:20 -0500
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In article <qaydnYUv5oytv2HdRVn-pQ@gbronline.com>, Wes Groleau <groleau+news@freeshell.org> writes:
> Martin Dowie wrote:
>> Don't use the standard types! They are a convience for writing q&d programs
>> and should never be used in production code.
> 
> Advice that one could easily take too far.
> I know of a major project where all sorts of
> unnecessary code had to be written for handling text
> because String and Integer were forbidden types!

What is the advantage of forbidding "string" ?