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> I think this is a perfect example of the blind spot of Ada programmers.
> You are so enamored of enumerations and perfectly indexed arrays and
> lack of buffer overflows that you will probably miss the most likely
> and subtle bug of this kind of code, which is that the Shuffle routine
> fails to produce each possible permutation with uniform probability!

Hyman, your posts are generally rational,
even when we disagree.  But you must have
had a brain fart on this one.  Robert's
post contained not even a hint of the
implementation of the Shuffloe routine,
so there is NO WAY you could have either
tested it or analyzed it to justify your
claim that it is not random.

On top of that, a shuffle by human hands
probably does not produce each possible
permutation with uniform probability!