From: Martin Dowie <martin@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful
Date: 1998/08/06
Date: 1998-08-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AumYbBAftgy1EwfY@dowie-cs.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.902414782@merv
In article <dewar.902414782@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu>
writes
>
>Jay said
>
><<The mismanagement is that the DOD did not push Ada beyond the immediate
>requirements of defense embedded systems. Its a chicken or the egg
>situation: You can't portably rely on GC until a good number of compilers
>support it, so nobody uses it and thus there is no pressing demand for it.
>This is where management needs to step in and break the cycle.
>>>
another reason GC is not used/wanted is that in many embedded systems
the last thing you want is some autonomous GC being scheduled just when
you're in the tight-for-time bit of the code...
--
Martin Dowie
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1998-08-06 0:00 Why C++ is successful Robert Dewar
1998-08-06 0:00 ` William Clodius
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Martin Dowie [this message]
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1998-08-22 0:00 dewar
1998-08-06 0:00 Robert Dewar
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Jason Stokes
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-11 0:00 ` n
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert L. Spooner
1998-08-10 0:00 ` Darren New
1998-08-07 0:00 ` harald.mueller
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Timothy Welch
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Jeffrey C. Dege
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Patrick Logan
1998-08-10 0:00 ` Laurent GUERBY
1998-08-12 0:00 ` Andy Ward
1998-08-12 0:00 ` Matt Kennel
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-13 0:00 ` nasser
1998-08-19 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1998-08-18 0:00 ` Martin Tom Brown
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Ell
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Patrick Logan
1998-08-18 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Rick Smith
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Rick Smith
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1998-08-15 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1998-08-15 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1998-08-15 0:00 ` Mr Ada
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-11 0:00 ` stilcom
1998-08-12 0:00 ` Jeffrey C. Dege
1998-08-12 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Stefan Tilkov
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Larry Elmore
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Phlip
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Patrick Logan
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1998-07-28 0:00 ` Rakesh Malhotra
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Dave Martin
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-07-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-07-29 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Michael Young
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Rakesh Malhotra
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Juan Carlos Gil Montoro
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1998-07-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Ell
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Larry Elmore
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Ell
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Jeffrey C. Dege
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Ell
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Ell
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-07-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-07-29 0:00 ` falis
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-07-31 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1998-08-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Ell
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Ell
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