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Mace Ayres <mace.ayres@icloud.com> writes:
> I doubt if any industrial software engineering in Aviations,
> railroads, control system in Europe or in the US, beyond, web
> programmers are going to abandon Ada, back to Pascal, over such kiddy
> code comparisons.

It's still a matter of concern if straightforward code is that much
harder to compile with Ada, that an advanced Ada compiler (GNAT)
produces slower code than a relatively simple Pascal compiler does
(depending on what Pascal compiler it was, of course).