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From: "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Simplest Ada program
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On 21/11/2016 4:41 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>> procedure Simplest is
>>> begin
>>>    null;
>>> end Simplest;
>>
>> Thanks, Master! How much time is needed to run this program?
>
> Which time? Programmer's time? CPU time? Compiler tool-chain time?

Good point!!!! Let's talk CPU time.

> Pascal was a common ancestor of both Ada and Delphi.

I wasn't aware of this when I was taught about it.