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Robert I. Eachus wrote:

> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> So the trick will be to turn CM into a programming problem, so
>> programmers and mathematicians will be instrested in solving it.
> 
> No, I think the right approach is to keep improving Ada for software 
> engineers and let programmers use C++.  

OUCH. I can't believe you said that.

Perhaps this is getting to the root of the "real" problem. ;-)

Perhaps we "lowly programmers" need to ditch Ada, and reinvent
our own flavour of the same. After all, only "lowly programmers"
would need to worry about such dirty things as portability.

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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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