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On 24/09/2022 12:41, G.B. wrote:

> Write a really good driver for Linux using Ada 2012 and do not use
> capital letters in the source text, at least where Linux doesn't.
> Be silent about the language. Can an Adaist do that, to save the
> language?

The biggest problem is that the compiled runtime is compiler version 
dependent and the pain of making a runtime for linux kernel dev 
available for each and every compiler version, remember these things can 
also change on a version change too.