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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 16:42:25 +0200
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On 2018-04-29 16:34, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> writes:
>> Maintaining means usually fixing bugs
> 
> I don't believe that.  There are always improvements to make that aren't
> bug fixes.  Think of Ada-2012.

What is with Ada 2012?

> How much code do you personally use
> (other than embedded) that hasn't been improved in the past 15 years?

How do you know it was an improvement?

I cannot remember much improvements. It could be a psychological factor, 
but most code changes I usually notice are to worse.

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