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Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems
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Date: 22 Mar 91 18:09:46 GMT
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In article <jls.669588928@rutabaga>, jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
> Ada, properly written, looks like an English language
> description of the processing being performed, with the
> added advantage that it also executes. (There is no need
> for pseudo-code, or even much need for comments.)

Funny, that's what COBOL coders keep telling me.

After all, which is more like English:

	ADD 1 to A GIVING B

or 
	B := A + 1

Just a thought.

hal.