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From: marks@ssdevo.enet.dec.com
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Subject: Re: Currency Quotes
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Date: 4 Mar 90 21:37:47 GMT
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In article <8224@hubcap.clemson.edu>, billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu (William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 ) writes...
>> From goudreau@larrybud.rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau):
>>> your original complaint about
>>> units(1), which must have embarassed you horribly when you found out
>>> about floating (gasp!) currency exchange rates.
>> 
>>    [I replied:]  Right.  My self-managed IRA had a total return of 
>>    44.43% last year; how embarassing.  Maybe I should stop watching 
>>    the Nightly Business Report so often, huh?
> 
>   Oh, by the way, Bob, you'll be pleased to know that Reuters (which
>   supplies the Nightly Business Report with its market data, including
>   currency quotes) is delivering that market data using Ada software...
>   the introduction of Ada technology into Reuters was described at the
>   ACM SIGAda Tri-Ada '88 conference.  Sorry you missed it!!!

Oh for crying out loud.  Can we lay all this spooge to rest once and for all
and get on with some *INTERESTING* SOFTWARE ENGINEERING discussions?
All this childish "You jabbed me, so I'll jab you" stuff is
getting old.

How about some clever ideas on how to reduce the bug rate in C code?
(I mentioned C specifically ONLY because I use it and have an interest in
quality improvement ideas directly related to it.  NOT as an indication
of the superiority/inferiority of C to other languages.)
I'm thinking of things along the lines of a suggestion posted recently
which utilized the preprocessor.  We already know about reviews, SA/SD, etc.

	Randy Marks
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