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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Confusing language,
 was Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in     ada programing
Date: 1999/11/10
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Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> Well, now.  That raises my dander a little bit, Mr. Duff.

Sorry.

Still, you (and Robert Dewar) now blame it on deficiencies of COBOL,
which is quite fair.  That's quite different from saying folks
intelligently decided that 1999 was (practically) the end of time, and
documented that fact.

- Bob