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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 5b1e799cdb,3ef3e78eacf6f938 X-Google-Attributes: gid5b1e799cdb,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!xmission!news.bbs-scene.org!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:48:12 -0500 From: Jon Harrop Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3? Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.functional,comp.lang.c++,comp.programming Followup-To: comp.programming Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:58:05 +0100 References: <2009a75f-63e7-485e-9d9f-955e456578ed@v37g2000prg.googlegroups.com> Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: <0t-dnZLufYThOu3XnZ2dnUVZ8spi4p2d@brightview.co.uk> X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-q3qWrqfsjkdENhJjJYxm+PxLdRagX5Iyq6YBX09VldpE5bdCVViV9yfvYEwUog/lATMuRpTIStMxvrI!Oqs5AbakS2eXlCa0bmMVpnmBibcXNeYuWrRP6f+CKEw60DZ8bU6D1Lip7eUS9W/mbpn+Wzdv1/DX!huyaMJ9TDABx9QEKqSUXjj4s X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.scheme:6175 comp.lang.ada:7426 comp.lang.functional:2529 comp.lang.c++:48562 comp.programming:12127 Date: 2009-07-29T21:58:05+01:00 List-Id: Martin wrote: > There's little demand for GC from Ada users for a number of reasons... The main reason is surely that they are self-selected: former Ada programmers who wanted the benefits of garbage collection migrated to other languages and do not demand GC for Ada. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://www.ffconsultancy.com/?u