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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Problem space (Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada
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Date: 13 May 2003 09:27:50 -0400
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"Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com> writes:

> "Stephen Leake" <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message
> news:u3cjk81gg.fsf@nasa.gov...
> > But push it to the extreme, and people will say we should be
> > programming in UML, not Ada.
> 
> But that is a foolish argument since UML is not well defined.

I agree, but unfortunately, most people don't see "well defined" as an
important feature of a language. Look at Perl, UML, Java class
libraries for example.

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-- Stephe