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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: += in ada
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Russ wrote:

>No, that's not what I said. What I am suggesting is that some
>programmers might be turned off by a programming language that does
>not provide augmented assignment operators.

Well, I was turned on by Ada because it did *not* have them. But of
course, I'm different than most programmers. I'm using Ada. :-P


Vinzent.