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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: memory management and productivity
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:07:56 +0100
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"Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
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> The following is an excerpt from an article featured on Slashdot today
> (6/16/04). The excerpted paragraph is not even the main topic of the
> article, but it made wonder what chance Ada has in the future without
> automatic memory management. It seems to me that garbage collection
> should be optional within the language.

You will be delighted to here that Ada already supports GC thought the
use of Controlled types then. And if that weren't enough you can grap
"Boehm-Demers-Weiser" GC from AdaCL @ http://adacl.sourceforge.net/.

Cheers

-- Martin