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Suppose you went back to Ada Lovelace and asked her the difference between a script and a program. She'd probably look at you funny, then say something like: Well, a script is what you give the actors, but a program is what you give the audience. That Ada was one sharp lady...
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If this were Ada, I suppose we'd just constant fold 1/0 into
die 'Illegal division by zero
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As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.
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If this were Ada, we'd simply doc it as 'erroneous'.
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