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From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Naming of Tagged Types and Associated Packages
Date: 1998/09/01
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Date: 1998-09-01T00:00:00+00:00
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nospam@thanks.com.au (Don Harrison) writes:

> Eiffel and Ada advocates are often passionate about their favourite 
> language and crossposting carries the risk of sparking a bun-fight. 
> However, it can also help clear up misconceptions about each.

This was indeed the case on comp.object recently.  I was able to show
some Eiffel guys how importing an operation as a generic formal
subprogram eliminates the coupling that would occur by using multiple
inheritance to compose abstractions.

All and all, I'd say USENET is worth it.