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Subject: Re: += in ada
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Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message news:<3F8FD877.4020101@noplace.com>...
> O.K. Basic too. (Been there. Done that. The first language I ever used - 
> on a DECSystem 10, no less. With 110 baud teletypes.)
> 
> Keep in mind the key point that not everyone finds it "attractive" (I 
> don't) and that its not buying a whole lot of improvement on anything, 
> and since there are limited resources for modifying the Ada standard, 
> this pretty much is a non-starter. There are bigger fish to fry.

As a promoter of Ada, I'm more worried about *getting* fried than I am
about what to fry.