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From: Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.realtime,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
Date: 14 Mar 2005 19:22:08 -0500
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Ioannis Vranos <ivr@remove.this.grad.com> writes:

> Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> > Such as... ?
> > I'm still not understanding your point.  Are you referring to the fact
> > that the Java garbage collector cannot reasonably be implemented in
> > Java, and things like that?
> 
> Apart from these, let's talk about Pascal for example. I do not think
> everything in its library can be written with the language itself.

Pascal (as defined by Wirth) doesn't even support separate compilation,
so there is no concept of libraries in Pascal, so nothing in its
"libraries" can be written in Pascal.

- Bob