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From: "Matthew Heaney" <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
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In article <38189268.43EB150F@mail.earthlink.net> , Charles Hixson 
<charleshixsn@mail.earthlink.net>  wrote:

> The second is the syntax used in "object" declaration.  Very clumsy.

Huh?

procedure Do_Something is
  I : Integer;
begin

I is an object.  What's so "clumsy" about its declaration?


> But the cost of a unified design of this nature is that, e.g., garbage
> collection is eliminated from the language.  (The syntax is mainly due to
> early design.)

Huh?  Ada was carefully designed to allow an implementation to provide
garbage collection.

Garbage collection is not provided[1] by Ada compiler vendors because
users have decided that they don't want it, not because the RM has
"eliminated" it.

[1] Excepting those implementations of the JVM, which *do* provide
garbage collection.


--
If we let the Creationists have their way, we may as well go whole hog.
Let us reintroduce the flat-earth theory, the chemistry of the four
elements, and mediaeval astrology.  For these outworn doctrines have
just as much claim to rival current scientific views as Creationism does
to challenge evolutionary biology.

Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism
Philip Kitcher