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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: + in ada
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:30:00 +0200
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

>Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com wrote:
>> To understand "B :+ A", you need some programming background.
>> To understand "Add (A, To =3D> B)", you just need english.
>
>And Ada is meant to be a programming language for
>people without programming background?

Yes. It's cool to show some piece of source code to the product
manager and tell him: "See? That's the code. It works, must be a
hardware problem, look for yourself." And then he's looking at the
paper and replies "Aaah, yes. I see."

;->


Vinzent.