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From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: Separation of IF and Imp: process issue?
Date: 1997/09/12
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In article <dewar.874081144@merv> dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

> Patrick says
> 
> <<One advantage of having them in the same file is less typing for the
> programmer.  This advantage still exists.>>
> 
> In the Ada world, we do not pay much attention to such arguments, since
> we favor readability over writability in an absolute manner. I realize this
> is an unusual language design strategy, but it is appropriate for dealing
> with maintainabvility in very large systems.

Not to mention it is just plain wrong.  You can put them in the same
file - how is there less typing?

/Jon

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