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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,29850945228df59 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-17 13:57:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-pas-nf2!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector and GNAT Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:57:02 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <3EEF809E.9000507@noplace.com> References: <1316747.mXveBPtf0Z@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b4.98 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 17 Jun 2003 20:57:07 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:39366 Date: 2003-06-17T20:57:07+00:00 List-Id: And putting it in is not really likely to get them to abandon whatever they are already using and start using Ada. We aren't going to make *everyone* happy, so perhaps picking carefully who we should urinate-off is the wiser course of action. Adding GC to get the AI crowd would likely upset more people than it made happy. MDC Larry Kilgallen wrote: > > > Garbage collection is important to particular problem domains like AI. > People who need it do not appear to be a significant portion of the > Ada-using public. -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================