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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Subject: Re: stupid question: how can I finish a program?
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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> In article <mailman.1030647842.10008.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>, "Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com> writes:
> 
> > From: Bob Leif
> > To: The readers of Comp.Lang.Ada
> 
> Please drop those little headers.  Thanks.

:-) :-) :-) 

We all have our little quirks. :-)

> > We have been witness to an extended discourse on this subject. Although,
> > it appears that there may not be an utterly reliable solution to this
> > problem, it is quite evident that even an imperfect solution would be
> > better than none.
> 
> That is not evident to me.  If I know I have to use a system specific
> technique, I will take care to study the problem.  If Ada provides it,
> I expect it to be robust without me peeking into the innards.

So you should make sure all your Ada programs loop forever, so you never
have to deal with those nasty OS issues of what happens when the program
exits.  ;-)

Ada does have this "feature" that when the program gets done it's done.
And then it exits into the never-never land of the OS.  One wonders what
happens to all the files it wrote upon, and all the shared memory
partitions it created.

- Bob