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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
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Subject: Re: synth documentation (was: Removing documentation)
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> I installed the synth package a couple of days ago, mainly to take a 
> look.  And yes, I agree, if you're happy with the package (I would be), 
> the Ada dependencies and long build times aren't an issue.  I'm sure the 
> learning curve isn't overly steep, but it was enough to keep me from 
> running it just for the fun of it.

Ada, huh?  The Reagan Star-Wars[*] language?  I have enough problems with 
stupid languages like Python (where white-space is part of the syntax; the 
last languages I've used thus were FORTRAN and COBOL) without having to 
learn, let's see, my 48th language...

[*]
Estimated to be a million lines of code, which must work first time.

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."