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From: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada?
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>>>>> "Bob" == Bob Spooner <rls19@psu.edu> writes:

    Bob> When I find myself fighting the language, it usually means
    Bob> that I need to revisit my design.

True.

Unfortunately many people prefer to blame the language :-(.

This happens a lot, for example see:

http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/Tool_Blame.aspx
http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/The_End_of_the_String_as_We_Know_It.aspx
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Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>