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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada NOT a good choice for a beginner to programming?
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:58:38 -0500
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faust wrote:

> When the programmer is likely to have left in less than 2 years to
> join another firm, who cares about "maintaining the result" ?

Me, the maintainer.


Vinzent.

-- 
Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming:
        Never test for an error condition you don't know how to
handle.