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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of Ada
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2024 11:08:43 +0100
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On 26/10/2024 05:38, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> On 2024-10-25, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:32:03 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> On 2024-10-25, 186282@ud0s4.net <186283@ud0s4.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>     Being forced to be an Ada programmer - it'd be like one of those
>>>>     legendary Greek tortures of hell ...
>>>
>>> Another one is being forced to maintain payroll programs forever.
>>
>> My personal hell is database programming. Gods know I've done enough of it
>> but it always feels like shoveling shit against the tide.
> 
> I'm proud to say that in 50 years of programming I've managed
> to never go near a DBMS.
> 
It was people like you who ensured that in the end I did.


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