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From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems
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Date: 23 Mar 91 14:03:15 GMT
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In article <jls.669588928@rutabaga> jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:

> No shit! Most C++ is indistinguishable from line noise.
> 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.)

That was the rationale for Cobol too, in the 1950s.

It didn't work then either.
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