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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: Is an RTOS Required for Ada?
Date: 1999/05/28
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Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> In article <7imvsr$5bg$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
<snip>
>  Somebody once suggested including a DWIM function in every
>  language.  Each potentially surprising construct could be
>  be coerced by the DWIM function.  DWIM is an acronym
>  for "Do what I mean!".
>
Well.. in the circles where I learned programming, that
instruction had a shorter mnemonic -- RPM (Read Programmer's Mind) ;)