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=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e80a1497a689d8a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Garbage colletion Date: 1999/11/01 Message-ID: <7vil9t$vmn$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 542782758 References: <38120FAF.945ADD7D@hso.link.com> <7uutgd$87h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <19991024.18033546@db3.max5.com> <38189268.43EB150F@mail.earthlink.net> <86ogdjtdwz.fsf@ppp-115-70.villette.club-internet.fr> <7vadsp$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> <1999Oct28.221910.1@eisner> <7vb3c4$8a21@news.cis.okstate.edu> <7vhfsl$791$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x40.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Nov 01 00:02:06 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke) wrote: > * Robert Dewar wrote: > >More accurately, he said that it would not be added unless > >there was significant customer demand -- there is none! > > This typ of reasoning is invalid, because a customer who > learned to deal with a missing feature clearly does not need > it afterwards. Well given the choice between implementing features that customers are actively asking for, and those that none of them are asking for, it is not hard to set priorities. Certainly we do implement features that we feel are important that are NOT on immediate want lists because we think that in the long run they will be useful, but I am afraid that at this point garbage collection does not get high on this priority list either (we regard further work on our integrated development environment for example to have much higher priority). Remember, that unlike most (but not all) the readers here, I know the garbage collected "world" very well, having, as I noted before been chairman of WG2.1 for many years, and having developed the GC algorithms for SPITBOL. Personally I would very much like to see someone develop a GC implementation for GNAT! Indeed, the most constructive thing would be for the GC advocates to spend their time doing that instead of trying to encourage "them" to do it :-) :-) Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.