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From: Robert*@ <Robert_member@newsguy.com>
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Subject: Re: ada vs. cpp
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In article <3BC30621.BDF74138@worldnet.att.net>, James says...
>
 
>I would, however, like to see some publicly available GC
>implementations for Ada.
 
Unless all Ada implementations provide GC (as an option), you will have
broken Ada.

Why?

Becuase if I write an Ada program on a GC enabled compiler/run-time, and later
on
take the code and build on another Ada compiler/run-time which does not 
support GC, then my program will not work (opps, forgot to free my own
memory, But I though the run-time will do it for me?)

THis makes Ada source code much less portable across Ada systems.