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From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony)
Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better!
In-Reply-To: Eric Clayberg's message of Fri, 24 Jan 1997 12:03:04 -0500
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In article <32E8EB48.2C0C@parcplace.com> Eric Clayberg <clayberg@parcplace.com> writes:

> Are you saying that Ada is incapable of propagating errors to the end
> user? All errors are guaranteed to be fixed prior to deployment? That
> would be remarkable.

It would not be merely "remarkable", it would be wog-boggling amazing.
Alas, it is not true.  OTOH, other things being equal (quality of
engineers, programmers, etc), it does appear that there tends to be a
very "low" number of these errors with Ada as the implementation
vehicle.

/Jon
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