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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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In article <1639952.z7hLqyLLQL@jellix.jlfencey.com>, Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2005-03@t-domaingrabbing.de> writes:
> Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> 
>> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>> 
>>> Ada 2005 adds more features to the standard, including
>>> linear algebra support, and
>>> more file and network I/O.
>> 
>> One question is, can these facilities be implemented with the language
>> itself, or someone has to use another language to do the real work?
> 
> They can. Unlike Pascal, Ada does not know "magic" subroutines.

What are "magic" subroutines ?

I know of nothing by that name in VAX/DEC/Compaq/HP Pascal for VMS.