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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping
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chris <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:

> But we're programmers!  Being lazy is in our nature. ;)

Ok.

> Sorry.  I always remember an old School teacher who said programmers where
> lazy.  Her point was that programmers don't like to do unnecessary work.
> That's sort of what this thread is about.

That's not the way I remember it. We must be lazy and reuse whatever already
exits for a specific problem, but we must do the hard work if needed in new
fields...

Pascal.

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