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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: The Ada experience.
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> never had the ongoing struggle I experience with Windows and VC++.
> ...
> experience you have with that environment, so that you can draw on
> that to work around, or avoid, problems.
  When we started developing CLAW (Class Library for Ada on Windows), part
of the intent was to make Windows easier for Ada programmers by presenting
a surface allowing use of Ada techniques and paradigms.  Nowadays I
realize the (painfully gained) knowledge of Windows and workarounds
embedded inside the CLAW routines is every bit as important.