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On 04/08/2018 02:29 AM, Brad Moore wrote:
> 
> You are probably right, as echoed by Dmitri, its somewhat borderline.
> There are other Ada versions farther down the list of Ada programs, I think that are closer to the original intent.

The one I quickly wrote, in which tasks do actually pass a counter around, 
decrementing each time, until a task receives zero, takes about 5 mins. It 
doesn't have a PO, but does demonstrate a selective accept with terminate 
alternative. That's an interesting Ada tasking feature that you can't use with a 
PO: tasks just stop without having to be told they can.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"My name is Jim, but most people call me ... Jim."
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