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On 2014-10-28, Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> wrote:
>
> The Software-Engineering Code of Ethics (from the ACM/IEEE-CS) says (in part)
>
> "Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications
> meet the highest professional standards possible."
>
> Using error-prone, poorly designed languages would seem to violate this. Anyone
> who would do work in such a language must, therefore, either not be a S/W
> engineer, be an unethical S/W engineer, or think that producing substandard S/W
> is ethical practice.
>

I am currently learning how to write a small extension for Android
Firefox because the Android version of Firefox doesn't support the
extension I use on the desktop version of Firefox.

Should I not implement this extension (and hence do without it's
functionality) simply because I can't implement it in Ada ?

Simon.

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