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Subject: Re: Trivia: Ada packages are great!
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Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reasoning in such a mess is just impossible.

Right. Having such stone age means of organizing program text shows that we
(demand) don’t ask our suppliers to produce better tools for analyzing it.
Plus, file systems are easy game for programmers wanting to show pride,
cleverness and individuality. (It works!) It also cost them less effort if
compiler vendors can outsource to filesystem handling.

Ada history shows that, by analogy, any attempt at standardizing ways of
organizing source text might attract moneymakers more than anyone. So, in
any case, files vs namespaces can be seen to provide business
opportunities.