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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
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Subject: Re: Vector of Vectors.
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:26:05 -0500
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> writes:

> Alex R. Mosteo wrote:
>> Which one could argue is straightforward from a conceptual point of
>> view, but requires a lot of typing.
>
> Ada explicitly emphasizes ease of reading over ease of writing (ARM Introduction).

Not in this case.

I agree that the "extra typing" is not the problem.  The problem is that
you have to read all that junk you typed, and it's mostly content free.

- Bob