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> >     infinite loop without a faked up condition. The idea being that in Ada
> >     the typical infinite loop would normally be terminated by detonation.
>
> Maybe he found out how to do it in C/C++:
>
> for (;;)
>   {
>   }
  They aren't the same.  Within the C language, that program's single
task would indeed only be terminated by detonation.  But an Ada program
could well have other tasks doing useful things at the same time as
the one task was in an infinite loop.