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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Question on Ada Expressive Power
Date: 22 Jan 2006 23:47:20 -0600
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In article <BMXAf.14741$Jd.12500@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>, <adaworks@sbcglobal.net> writes:

> That is important advice. Remember that Ada programs almost
> always have a run-time under them.  This could be construed as
> ovehead for small programs, but essential for larger programs.
> 
> Most other languages do not have this feature.

Certainly on VMS a runtime library is almost always present for
programs written in PL/I, Pascal, Fortran, C, C++ and Basic,
as well as Ada.