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From: Thomas.Kendelbacher@erno.de (Thomas Kendelbacher)
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada
Date: 1996/10/17
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Date: 1996-10-17T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.845247229@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>Lars says
>
>"Cultural bias or even prejudice is the most likely reason IMHO. Not
>technical reasons. On and off the same discussion comes up in the C++
>community. Those that control C++ and those that control Ada simply
>don't want GC :-("
>
>That's nonsense I think. [...]

No, it isn't. In the aerospace industry (probably the most faithful
of Ada's followers that are around) it's the decisive factor.

With so many technical managers and senior engineers who went into
management 10-15 years ago ... I won't say much more here. It just makes
for a good amount of technical conservatism: In those days, the common
belief in this community was that GC is a Bad Thing. Period.

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