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From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner)
Subject: Re: Ada OO Mechanism
Date: 1999/05/27
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On Tue, 25 May 1999 22:25:38 -0400, David Botton <David@Botton.com> wrote:

>If Perl is the duct tape of programming languages, Ada is the Rambo
>knife of engineering. (OK maybe swiss army fit better ...)

Personally leatherman is my knife of choice... you can do all you can
do with a swiss army knife, but it's better constructed and has a
couple of nifty features I've not seen on a swiss army knife (like
pliers, wire cutters/strippters etc.).

;)

- Aidan (knife flame war anybody?)
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