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From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org>
Subject: Re: Do I Really Need A Supervisor?
Date: 1997/03/13
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Date: 1997-03-13T00:00:00+00:00
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>>>>> "Bob" == Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> writes:

Bob> In article <3327438E.942@earthlink.net>, Auntie Alias
Bob> <antialias@earthlink.net> wrote:

>> ... Too many times in my career I have had to explain the most
>> basic ideas of Ada programming to my boss. (For example, I have
>> twice had to explain to a boss that an Ada program needs a main
>> procedure - that it was not just a collection of packages that
>> somehow starts running.)

Bob> An Ada 95 program does not need a main procedure.

What do you mean? He didn't write "a 'main' procedure", but "a main
procedure" which is quite different.

  Sam
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