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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.66.141.77 with SMTP id rm13mr15509301pab.16.1428570311496; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 02:05:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.92.51 with SMTP id a48mr398427qge.16.1428570311233; Thu, 09 Apr 2015 02:05:11 -0700 (PDT) Path: border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!m20no2057585iga.0!news-out.google.com!a41ni26qgf.1!nntp.google.com!z60no491509qgd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 02:05:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87wq1mdwa1.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=57.79.21.1; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG NNTP-Posting-Host: 57.79.21.1 References: <44b2e375-8993-4a7e-b81a-6a7b512d2e3e@googlegroups.com> <1miph3v72f4y2$.1u76w2ujg74zf$.dlg@40tude.net> <87wq1mdwa1.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <7136971a-4bc8-4f42-a605-5a37127ca4a9@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: BDD package in Ada. From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com Injection-Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 09:05:11 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:192789 Date: 2015-04-09T02:05:11-07:00 List-Id: Le jeudi 9 avril 2015 01:40:08 UTC+2, Paul Rubin a =E9crit=A0: > 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 alt= ernatives. Ada provides a third way in this respect with controlled types. Just my two centimes ;-) G.