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From: Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Ammo-zilla
Date: 1999/10/28
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Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@mail.earthlink.net> writes:
> [...] But the cost of a unified design of this nature is that,
> e.g., garbage collection is eliminated from the language. [...]

Quite the contrary, garbage collection is allowed (but not mandated)
by the language (see section 13.11.3 of the Ada 95 RM), and it's of
course available for Ada compilers targetting the JVM.

--LG