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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:50:27 -0800
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Hyman Rosen wrote:

> Richard Riehle wrote:
> > Well, I've mentioned this before as a cautionary issue, but reports are
> > coming in of an impending world-wide shortage of curly braces.  Soon,
> > languages that depend on curly braces will run out of this essential
> > resource, and other languages will have to fill in the gap.  :-)
>
> Ada had better watch out as well. Due to the popularity of
> template metaprogramming in C++, angle brackets will soon
> be in short supply, and Ada programmers will no longer be
> able to use "is <>" :-)

Time for us all to rehabilitate our Smalltalk skills.  :-)

Richard Riehle