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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:54:19 +0200, Coileán Nioclás Pól de Ghloucester
> wrote:
>
>> Many innocent persons were convicted and imprisoned because of buggy 
>> software by ICL.
>
> Was it written in Ada?

_Extremely_ unlikely. And I don't say this because it might have been
less buggy if written in Ada.