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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Expressing physical units
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Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

> Wojtek Narczynski wrote:
> 
>> Macks is not Ada, okay?
> 
> I am tempted to say that it is, but no, it is a tool that helps me
> write my Ada code for handling physical units.

I would say that Macks is as Ada as generics are, or as templates are C++.
In my view all of them constitute a kind of meta language.

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