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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: stupid question: how can I finish a program?
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Robert A Duff <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> writes:

> 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.

Just as if you do the same in C, surely!