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On Thu, 12 Sep 2024, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
"Counter intuitively it is possible that this is holding Ada back. A lot of
Ada code cannot run without some fairly complex runtime support due to
tasks, protected objects, finalization etc.. Runtimes have to be developed
for each chip instead of each cpu."


A book by Burns and Wellings unsensibly boasts that the demanding runtime 
demands of Ada are an advantage because if you be with them then you be 
with them, whereas as Kevin Chadwick points out - they are not easy to 
make.