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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Crosspost: Help wanted from comp.compilers
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>>  > (Incidentally, this is not far from the example that Jean Ichbiah
>>  > himself gave when asked why Ada required recompilation of all
>>  > dependents if a spec that had not changed was recompiled.)
>>
>> Where does Ada require this?
> 
> Review the recompilation rules that you have been kvetching about for the
> last few days.

That seems to me a very impolite non-answer.

Even if one granted the obligation of every person to be a full expert
in every issue on which they commented, this is a newsgroup that many
others are reading, not an email discussion.