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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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"Paul Rubin" <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
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> Sure, that's like C++ smart pointers and containers.  I'm familiar with
> the approach and it's nice for some purposes, but it still needs a lot
> of attention, and constrains your style quite a lot.

Which is a good thing. It escapes me why spaghetti code is long since 
considered a bad thing, but writing spaghetti data is some sort of 
necessity. "Smart pointers" are rather kick-the-can; the only sensible 
solution is no pointers.

If Ada didn't constrain the sensible ways to get things done, I would 
literally never get anything done. (That was the main reason I came to Ada 
in the first place, to save my from myself in an anything goes environment.)

                                 Randy.