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"Dennis Lee Bieber" <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 May 2004 18:06:18 GMT, "Richard  Riehle"
> <adaworks@earthlink.net> declaimed the following in comp.lang.ada:
>
> >
> > Back in the 1908's, when I first started coding Ada, I found myself
>
> <snort><snicker>Are you sure you weren't dating her? <G>
> Granted, she'd have to be in her 90s by then...
>
> Sorry -- I know you meant 1980s, but the transposition makes for such an
> image...

Dennis, there are those who know me well enough to wonder whether
I might not have actually meant 1908, given my seeming antiquity.
However, notwithstanding that antiquity, I did not actually begin writing
programs in the Ada language until the 1980's.

My 1908 programming was limited to filing sprockets for cuckoo clocks. :-)

Richard