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<adaworks@sbcglobal.net> writes:


> One of my favorite columns in the now defunct C++
> Report magazine was titled "Obfuscated C++."  I
> still have some of those articles clipped out an in a
> three-ring binder.    In every case, the obfuscation
> illustrated was something that simply could not happen
> in Ada.   I cannot imagine anyone writing a column
> called "Obfuscated Ada."

Wasn't there a obfuscated Ada thread some time ago her at c.l.a? Some 6 or 10 months ago?

> Richard Riehle 

BTW, wasn't it you who still wants to explain to me how Java is not
type safe, or am I mixing something up?

Regards -- Markus