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From: philbo@arasta.uucp (Phillip Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Re: Functions without side effects (was Old confusion)
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Date: 25 Jun 91 06:53:28 GMT
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diamond@jit533.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes:

> In article <Re8141w162w@arasta.uucp> philbo@arasta.uucp (Phillip Lindsay) wri
>
> >I prefer not to like Ada (having spent three years doing Ada
> >related DOD development).
>
> Oh come on now, you don't judge a language on the basis of one of its
> customers.  The military uses computers; doesn't that make you prefer
  ^^^^^^^^^
> not to like computers?
I wasn't making a judgment based on the "customer,"  but rather my
personal experience with Ada. The work just happened to be related
to DOD.
Phillip Lindsay "Those environmentalists are just trying to ruin the world."
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