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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/05/04
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> Strings in Ada are too boring, it's much more exciting to code
> in a language where
> 
>   if ("abc" == "abc")
> 
> has implementation dependent semantics, and keeps you in
> suspense on the outcome :-)

"Exciting", eh?  Are you trying to demonstrate the truth of what I said
in another thread:

> ...  I think there are lots of programmers who like
> languages for reasons other than the quality of the resulting programs.

?

;-)

> At least I think it's impl dependent -- perhaps I remembered
> wrong, and it's always false :-)

I think you remembered correctly.

- Bob