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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:23:47 +0200
From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@gnat.com>
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All right, this is a troll, so I won't feed the troll, and this will be
my second and last answer on this issue.

> If you can do something like this in C, why shouldn't Ada have the same 
> facility?

How do you know that "exit" is implemented in C ? It may well be
implemented in Ada, or Assembly, or Fortran, or ?

C uses a binding to the exit function, doing a #include <stdlib.h>,
or extern void exit(); (int parameter intentionally omitted), and Ada
does the same, there is absolutely no difference except in your mind.

And as you will notice, there is no need to say "you can always build a
binding", since the binding is already done, and is as trivial as the C
binding.

The mistake is to try to put one language against another, rather than
associating languages with one another seamlessly.

Arno