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From: Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: Ada vs. C++
Date: 2000/02/11
Date: 2000-02-11T18:35:46+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87snyzoad9.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 880g59$fv03@ftp.kvaerner.com

"Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:

> You may want to read the december issue of the Linux journal (The interview
> with the author of the Bazaar and the Cathedral). The interesting thing is the
> rise of Python as a scripting language. It is claimed that 90% of  errors in
> "working" software is related to memory management.

The people implementing long-living server processes in Python have
experienced this. ;)  Python memory management is based on reference
counting, and it's quite easy to create cyclic data structures by
accident.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-02-11  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-02-11  0:00 Ada vs. C++ G
2000-02-11  0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-11  0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11  0:00   ` Gary
2000-02-14  0:00     ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11  0:00   ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2000-02-14  0:00     ` Gisle S�lensminde
2000-02-11  0:00   ` Preben Randhol
2000-02-11  0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-11  0:00   ` Bobby D. Bryant
2000-02-14  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-11  0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-14  0:00 ` Vincent DIEMUNSCH
2000-02-14  0:00   ` Gautier
2000-02-15  0:00   ` Richard D Riehle
2000-02-15  0:00     ` gdb question, was " tmoran
2000-02-15  0:00       ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-15  0:00       ` Ehud Lamm
2000-02-16  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-07  0:00         ` Mike Dimmick
2000-03-07  0:00           ` Jeff Creem
2000-02-16  0:00       ` Stephen Leake
2000-02-15  0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-03-04  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-03-04  0:00     ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-03-04  0:00     ` Marin D. Condic
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-20  0:00 Ada Vs. C++ lilach_bien
2000-11-20 23:30 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-11-25  0:00 ` Pete
1991-04-09 21:35 Ada vs. C++ Mario Barbacci
1991-04-11 12:29 ` RICK CARLE
1989-11-17 18:53 Ada Pablo Fernicola
1989-11-18 18:55 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847 
1989-11-26  6:09   ` Ada vs. C++ Paul S. R. Chisholm
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