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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Porting ADA source
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Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> wrote:
: But the mission is to take code body X and get it from its existing 
: platform onto another - not redesign the system.

Uhm, "But *if* the mission is to take code body X and get it from its
existing  platform onto another *very similar* platform *once*, and
then *be done with it forever*", o.K.. And hopefully noone else will
have to look at the modified code again. But how often is this the case
with code that is actually used?


Georg