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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers?
Date: 02 May 2003 14:37:59 -0400
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Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> writes:

> think of Word's animated paper clip, which is certainly of economical
> importance to the producers of Word.

There ought to be a law saying no programmer may work on animated paper
clips until the software has exactly zero bugs.  ;-)

- Bob