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,b99897135d6631cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: memory management and productivity Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:41:43 +0100 Organization: BAE SYSTEMS Message-ID: <40d932fe_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> References: <40d15023$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <40d69121$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de pMiWzo4jNCEdMYbR3O1l9g/uiT91uCdVzytTHf6J7/7T0qmGUc X-Orig-Path: baen1673807.greenlnk.net!baen1673807!not-for-mail X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: baen1673807.greenlnk.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1801 Date: 2004-06-23T08:41:43+01:00 List-Id: "Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message news:bebbba07.0406222041.593ab7c3@posting.google.com... > > But the only language which I have used so far which got it quite > > right IMHO is Modula-3. The programmer is free to choose, and the > > language guarantees that GC is available. > > Bingo. That's exactly what Ada should have. And it shouldn't take a > rocket scientist to figure that out. We could start the ball rolling on getting the AdaCL garbage collector into Ada1X! :-)