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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Nature of XML (was: Re: Standard Ada Preprocessor)
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On 2004-01-31, Alexandre E. Kopilovitch <aek@VB1162.spb.edu> wrote:
>>-- 
>>"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming
>> language."
>
> You may see that as irony, but the most known Ada 83 designer Jean Ichbiah
> turned exactly to that - the flagship product of his company aimed to saving
> keystrokes: http://www.textware.com .

Yes. As I said it is the job of the text editor :-)

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