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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Other Ada Standards (was Re: SIGada Conference)
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote in message
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> Oh yes, but the number of source code lines is also an indicator. Should
we
> follow Basic by explicit numbering them? The point is that,

I just can't let this bad analogy lie ... ;-)
When BASIC required lines numbers it didn't enforce that the numbering had
anything to do with the actual number of lines.

10 PRINT "Hello World":
15 PRINT "."
20 STOP

Gee, this program doesn't look like it contains twenty lines ;-)

-CRM