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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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On 2003-10-21, Robert I. Eachus <rieachus@comcast.net> wrote:
> Marius Amado Alves wrote: "100% Ada, 0 bugs."
>
> If you don't intend to copyright that, look for it to show up as my next 
> .sig.  No smilely.  That is the campaign that Ada needs.  We could argue 
> details like "0 bugs" vs. "no bugs" vs. "zero bugs."  but that is a 
> minor detail.

*Alarm bells* We will have a lot of discussions with C / C++ zealiots
who will think Ada will prevent any bug from happening also logical
bugs. On the other hand one cannot write: "100% Ada, fewer bugs" and
hope to raise any eyebrows either :-)

*rolling up sleeves* ;-)

Preben
-- 
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming
 language."