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Re: c++ vs ada results

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From: John F. Woods
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1991 16:07
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jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
>Sorry. I retract my statement that when it comes to compilers you
>get what you pay for, at least as it concerns the particular case
>of GNU. I've received nothing but praise (usually
>stated quite angrily) via e-mail for the GNU family. I find this,
>by the way, to be totally bizarre, since it seemingly flies in
>the face of 6,000 years of free-market economic theory.

Doesn't it just bug the heck out of you when observations get in the way
of perfectly good theories?
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