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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Curiosity rover on Mars
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:52:38 -0700
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On 08/30/2012 04:27 AM, Stephen Leake wrote:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <ggsub@pragmada.co.cc> writes:
>
>> it's in C, possibly "mostly auto-generated".
>
> Which means it's not in C, it's in some graphical language.
>
> If you use a compilation system for Ada that happens to use C as an
> intermediate language, would you say your application is "written in C,
> mostly auto-generated"?

The key word here is "possibly". If it's not mostly auto-generated, then it's in C.

If it is mostly auto-generated, I'd like to know what it was actually written in.

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