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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Porting ADA source
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:36:20 +0000 (UTC)
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"Wes Groleau" <groleau+news@freeshell.org> wrote in message
news:qaydnYUv5oytv2HdRVn-pQ@gbronline.com...
> Martin Dowie wrote:
> > Don't use the standard types! They are a convience for writing q&d
programs
> > and should never be used in production code.
>
> Advice that one could easily take too far.
> I know of a major project where all sorts of
> unnecessary code had to be written for handling text
> because String and Integer were forbidden types!

AOL! :-)