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On 04/18/2014 02:06 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
> On 2014.04.18, 16:45 , Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>>
>> Not really. As more than 95% of the world's population demonstrate, the
>> average person can understand the metric system. My experience is that
>> the average developer cannot understand the concepts underlying Ada.
>
> 1. '... to most Americans.'

Most Americans can understand the metric system if they have to. The US military 
takes typical Americans and has them working exclusively in metric in short order.

> 2. 'twas a joke son, a joke I say.

I know. That never stopped me before.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"C++ is vast and dangerous, a sort of Mordor of
programming languages."
Jason R. Fruit
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