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From: AdaMagica <christ-usch.grein@t-online.de>
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Date: 2012-02-04T06:57:45-08:00
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On 4 Feb., 04:43, a...@att.net wrote:
> Programmers do not want to spend their life re-writing code written in
> Ada. That is, every new language release requires 80% to 95% of the Ada
> code to be rewritten. Even the yearly release of Adacore's GNAT can have
> so many updates that it can cause a complete rewrite of an application
> even between language releases.

Again some incredible junk from anon. I rehosted Ada 83 embedded
software (several hundred thousand LoC) to different hardware with Ada
95, then moved on to Ada 2005, without much ado.

Seems like this guy is the worst programmer ever on earth.