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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: Is Ada the future? [was: Is C++ the future?]
Date: 19 Oct 1994 11:51:35 -0400
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Stephen, believe me, the *great* majority of Lisp programmers would feel
lost without a debugger. There may be some singular exceptions (in all the
hundreds of lisp programmers I have met, I never found one, but of course
no universal quantification is likely to be accurate when it is done over
people :-)