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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Thinking of using Ada for a job at home. Couple of questions
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John McCabe <john@nospam.assen.demon.co.uk.nospam> writes:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> wrote:

>>I can't tell you whether the tagged approach would work, because
>>programming by extension is a bad idea, and I avoid it whenever
>>possible.
>
> It's a good laugh though, and can be a useful think to know about if
> your work doesn't involve anything that needs to be particularly fast,
> reliable or safe :-}

Not my experience. Though the example I have in mind uses extension in
the framework; most project-specific code doesn't.