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From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
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Subject: Re: Other Ada Standards (was Re: SIGada Conference)
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Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message news:<3FEA5C82.8050309@noplace.com>...
> The cost would *not* be near zero. Someone has to first work out all the 
> legality rules and specify them in appropriate legalese for the ARM. 
> Someone has to review and debate the new rules & test it against other 
> rules to make sure it doesn't intercourse anything up. Someone has to go 
> out and change every compiler that is currently being maintained, test 
> it adequately to make sure it still works and then shepard it through 
> validation. Someone has to write the validation suite - complete with 
> cases that must be rejected by the compiler - not just ones that work. 
> Someone has to argue that their compiler really did pass the suite with 
> someone who has to argue that it didn't. Etc., etc., etc.

Whining like that over the smallest change makes really me wonder
about the future of Ada. If such a tiny change is so monumental, how
the hell are you guys going to handle significant changes?

I wonder if soldiers whine like that when they are imposed upon to
keep their barracks clean? After all, they have *much* more important
things to do -- like fight wars.