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From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
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Russ wrote:
> Oh, so you don't *entirely* lose the ability to separate specification
> from implementation. Approximately what percentage do you lose?

Sigh.

When you write code in Java, you can write it it in a way that allows
you to have the specification of a functional interface separate from
its implementation. Since I have zero interest in waging a language war
between Java and Ada, I don't care about how superior Ada's package
specifications might be. Let's say that Ada is a million times better.
That's of no interest when you're programming in Java.