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Date: 11 Aug 93 04:49:32 GMT
From: slinky.cs.nyu.edu!slinky.cs.nyu.edu!nobody@nyu.edu  (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada and C++: A request for comparison/contrast/relative benifits
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Of course. Had to be Ted Holden! Quite revealing his choice of selections
from the revision requests (so quaintly retitled as complaints) don't you
think. I particularly enjoyed the idea that the failure of the grammar in
the description to be LR(m,n) constitutes a serious defect.

Thanks Ted for a good laugh and an interesting insight into your technical
tastes!

P.S. the 780-odd RR's do make interesting reading. There is a lot of
incredible junk, I won't quote some of my favorites for fear of
embarassing those who submitted them, but there is also a lot of good
stuff -- good suggestions and good examples. This input proved extremely
useful in the design of 9X, and is well worth going back to to understand
the 9X process.

P.P.S. I guess Ted must have got up one day and been hit on the head by
a mandate carelessly dropped out of someone's high level office. One can
only sympathize ...