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On Friday, August 30, 2013 6:05:38 PM UTC-6, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
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> Yes. I recall reading somewhere that the Ada-80 and -83 design team expected compilers to automatically recognize passive tasks, and I recall reading papers on algorithms for doing so, but I think no actual compilers did so.


I did a little searching and it appears that DEC Ada (on OpenVMS) did implement passive tasks; see this: http://odl.sysworks.biz/disk$vaxdocsep953/decw$book/d37aaa15.p142.decw$book