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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Other Ada Standards (was Re: SIGada Conference)
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> ... and if it doesn't compile, so what? The programmer
> simply goes back and put in ...
   A fundamentally un-Ada way of approaching programming.  The Ada
programmer is supposed to *design*, based on *understanding*, not
just make tweaks to get around error messages.