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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: What evil would happen?
Date: 14 Jul 2003 06:31:05 -0500
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In article <slrnbh53ir.48d.randhol+abuse@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no>, Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> writes:
> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
>> Nobody has claimed there was no way to program around this obstacle.
>> The claim under discussion was that there is "no use" for the capability.
> 
> Well a great many things can have some usage, but it doesn't mean it has
> to be implemented.

Certainly if everything suggested were implemented Ada _would_ be as
overly large as claimed by detractors.