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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>
Subject: Re: Self-referential types
Date: 1999/10/23
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Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> As usual, we use the kind of tools appropriate for the problem
> space and solution space.  I am beginning to think that people who
> make up hard and fast rules for computer programming are people who
> no longer actually write programs.  Perhaps they never did.

Hmm.  I had a hand in writing a book that's got thousands of absolutely
hard and fast rules for programming.  It's the Ada 95 Reference Manual.
And I still actually write programs.  ;-) ;-)

- Bob