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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Rational Apex
Date: 1998/08/06
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cgreen@yosemite.atc.com (Christopher Green) writes:

> Apex is not just a compiler; it's a way of life.

I think the same thing about emacs.

[snip]

> Basically, Apex is a heavyweight solution to many of the problems that
> arise in developing software on a very large scale.  But you need to use
> Apex the way Rational designed it; if you try to impose your own way of
> doing things on Apex, you will spend all your time fighting it rather
> than getting work done.

Funny, this is what I often say to programmers about Ada.