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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Mixing Ada and C++. Is a good idea?
Date: 1997/11/21
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Joe says

<<It was a nice theory, one that we never did get to work in a project of
any size, because the inherent cohesiveness of the variables was not all
that high.  This has been true in all projects past some critical size,
regardless of language, from the days of assembly on to the present.

Having never gotten such a thing to work in the past, in any language, I
have simply given up on the approach.  Another nice theory.
>>

And yet, many programmers, who understand abstraction reasonably well,
*have* got this approach to work fine, in very large projects.

Could your failure be related to the same factors that make you think
that all programming ultimately ends up in midnight debugging sessions?