Re: BDD package in Ada.

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com]

Le jeudi 9 avril 2015 01:40:08 UTC+2, Paul Rubin a écrit :

> I'd say Ada's target market has shrunk in the last few decades, to the
> realtime systems and embedded control sectors.  The remaining sector of
> big server-side non-realtime systems (a buddy of mine used to work on
> those) has been mostly ceded to Java, which is garbage collected.  GC's
> main benefits are when the program is complicated enough that manual
> memory management increases development effort significantly and makes
> bugs more likely.  It's less of an issue in simpler programs, especially
> those that don't need dynamic memory.

This seems to suggest there are only GC and manual memory management as alternatives. Ada provides a third way in this respect with controlled types.
Just my two centimes ;-)
G.