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From: icaldwell@dera.gov.uk (Ian Caldwell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: exiting a bloc
Date: 12 Sep 2000 11:30:03 GMT
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Just to clarify a bit more, one of the meanings of the C in C-SMART was 
Certifiable and not Certified. 

In article <8papum$kaf$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, r_c_chapman@my-deja.com says...
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>
>
>Arrghh!  Clarification follows:
>
>SPARK - an annotated subset of Ada from Praxis Critical Systems.
>SPARC(tm) - Computer architecture - Sun Microsystems & SPARC Itnl Inc.
>SMART - Small Ada83 runtime system from Alsys/TSP/Aonix
>C-SMART - SMART with certification package.
>
>Everybody got that!?!?!
>
>And for desserts - the shocking realisation that Robert got
>something wrong on c.l.a - Praxis certainly don't
>make a compiler for SPARK - we make a static analysis
>tool called the Examiner.
>
>SPARK is compiled with any standard Ada compiler,
>including those hosted on and/or targetting SPARC(tm)
>and or using [C-]SMART as a runtime  (or RAVEN, VADSsc,
>ApexMARK, GNORT, Integrity etc. etc.)!
>
>Phew!
> - Rod, Praxis
>
>


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