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From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar)
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Subject: Re: stupid question: how can I finish a program?
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"Marin D. Condic" <not.valid@acm.org> wrote in message news:<ajdnjb$k2k$1@nh.pace.co.uk>...

> There is no "shoot this process in the head
> right this instant and I really mean it!" instruction in 
> Ada. Not a "standard" one, at least. Not one that will 
> work with all possible Ada programs.

That's misleading. Aborting the environment task will work.
However, in the real world, we seldom have Ada programs,
instead we have mixtures of Ada and various libraries and
foreign languages, and in this case, you can't depend on
anything predefined in Ada to work, and the issue of immediate
termination becomes somewhat system dependent.