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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: HELP
Date: 18 Oct 1994 12:31:04 -0400
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Date: 1994-10-18T12:31:04-04:00
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OK< sorry if I was over-harsh, but it is ALWAYS helpful if people asking
the question "how do I do this in Ada?" include information on the host
envrionment and target environment. The FAQ for this group could usefully
make that clear. It saves a lot of unnecessary iterations.

Even in the case of things that ARE in the language, there are implementation
dependencies that make it helpful to *always* have this information at hand
if people want the most effective help.