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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:01:20 +0000 (UTC)
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Date: 2005-03-10T07:01:20+00:00
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Jerry Coffin wrote:
> If I made the kind of unfair generalizations sometimes made by some Ada
> advocates, I'd say that Ada programmers only look at the surface, and
> don't consider the deeper meaning of things. :-)
> 
> Look past the toolbox itself, and consider the systems on which it
> runs. To save you the trouble of looking it up again, I'll point it
> out: X running on top of either Windows or UNIX.
> 
> Now do you suppose some C and C++ might be involved?

Sorry, but if you make a link to a news item /about/ a particular tool, 
at least /I/ am going to believe that you are making a point about the 
tool and not the OS it works on! Why not provide a link directly to a 
page about X running on top of either Windows or UNIX?! :-)

Cheers

-- Martin