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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 07 Mar 2005 20:10:20 +0000
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"Paul E. Bennett" <peb@amleth.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Something that some people here seem not able to accept because they
> believe in the absolute protectiveness of their compiler.

Just cos it compiles doesn't mean it'll pass the unit tests.

Just cos it passes the unit tests doesn't mean it's right!

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.