From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.102.1 with SMTP id fk1mr46316301obb.28.1438243929491; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:12:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.20.147 with SMTP id 19mr619675qgj.20.1438243929466; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:12:09 -0700 (PDT) Path: buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!f3no4798540igg.0!news-out.google.com!4ni82933qgh.1!nntp.google.com!z61no4119189qge.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:12:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.203.145.32; posting-account=AFCLjAoAAABJAOf_HjgEEEi3ty-lG5m2 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.203.145.32 References: <2df4698f-4c8e-457c-822d-209cb2f8ab5e@googlegroups.com> <014427b1-ff7a-4a69-82e6-0330af77ed96@googlegroups.com> <32db2458-1856-4c42-be99-79a381ab617c@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <0845ac26-78d6-4c3f-98f3-89bd4db4469a@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS? From: EGarrulo Injection-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:12:09 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Received-Bytes: 2065 X-Received-Body-CRC: 714606678 Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:194488 Date: 2015-07-30T01:12:09-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 2:25:39 AM UTC+2, Jeffrey R. Carter wrote: > On 07/29/2015 04:45 PM, EGarrulo wrote: > > > > For me, right now, the #1 annoyance -- which could easily become a deal-breaker -- is that Ada requires manual memory management. For a > > language that qualify itself as safe, this is contradictory (outside > > embedded development). Other modern languages either offer garbage > > collection, or smart pointers in the standard library. > > Unless you're implementing a dynamic data structure, it's highly unlikely that > you need to use access types at all. Resource management goes beyond dynamic data structures. At least, this has been my experience.