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Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada?
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On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 11:04 +0200, Markus E Leypold wrote:
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:

> > I called it trivial because a valid program processing an infinite inpu=
t
> > would not require *all* the input to finish.=20

>  According to your definition all real programs on real
> machines are "trivial".

Wouldn't that depend on what "processing" means? Dmitry,
is your program a reactive system (reaching one of its "final"
states when a certain subsequence of input has been read,
reported, and forgotten? Like sensor data, or quadruples of 7
in the decimal expansion of =CF=80)?