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From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Top 10 Ada myths
Date: 23 Mar 1995 00:17:50 GMT
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In article <3kngjg$g4u@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

  > Actually the real history of derived types is as follows:

    As I said, I couldn't remember exactly which issue the quote was
in reference to, it was in the middle of a list of current open
issues, one of which was derived types.

    But as you clearly indicted, and I was trying to communicate as
well, all the committees did--and did very well--both times was to
help one person put together a coherent integrated language that
satified a very large menu of requirements.

--

					Robert I. Eachus

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