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These newsgroups are not very active - but news:comp.lang.vhdl is not=20
being so well - so if one wants to ignore these newsgroups then one can=20
also ignore this first article this month in these newsgroups.

HTTP://Gailly.net
a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0:
=C2=AB=C2=A0From 1981 to 1989 I participated in the construction of code ge= nerators=20
and real-time systems for the Ada language within Alsys. I was a member=20
of the Ada language design team.=C2=A0=C2=BB

He has however coauthored e.g. a book in C afterwards.

Buggy Media Player (Version 11.2505.2.0 Copyright 2025 Microsoft) credits=
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him. One can assume that he is not guilty of its bugs. These credits are=20
for System.Memory 4.5.3 and 4.5.4 and=20
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe 4.5.2 and 5.0.0 and=20 System.Text.Encodings.Web 5.0.1 and System.Text.Json 5.0.2.

I criticise Microsoft players on HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/FFMPEG_etc/FFPlay_modesty.HTM
by contrasting them with FFPlay playing "a huge circa 4-gigabyte 74-hour=20 MPEG-4 file".

I would have liked to promote some Ada application, but e.g. ALIRE Crates=
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Audio_base and Audio_wavefiles by Audio Software Engineer Gustavo Andr=C3= =A9=20
HOFFMANN do not support MPEG-4 even though he worked on MPEG-4. Cf. HTTP://Gusthoff.com/cv.html
and
HTTPS://ALIRE.Ada.dev/crates/audio_wavefiles
and
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