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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>>
> 	And none of those, to my knowledge, inflicts literal one-to-one
> constructs; they all tend to use common idiom's of the target language.
> Digging up 22 year old high-school French for example... "My name is
> xyz" is NOT translated into "moi appel est xyz", but rather to "je
> m'appel xyz" (literal "I my name xyz").

Literally, "My name is Xyz" would be "Mon nom est Xyz", and "Je 
m'appelle Xyz" is "I call myself Xyz."

> 	And, as mentioned above, the "problem" we saw upon reading your code
> was simply "identify if <input> is an uppercase character", and the
> solution to /that/ problem is the simple "x in 'A'..'Z'" structure.

Later he talked about checking for inclusion in a non-contiguous range, 
but never did he say anything about why he did odd things such as making 
unnecessary conversions.

Perhaps we should simply have said that there is no Obfuscated Ada contest.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
should probably be coding in Ada."
P. J. Plauger
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