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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3498dd887729ed19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada Date: 1996/10/14 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 189439170 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <01bbb910$f1e73f60$829d6482@joy.ericsson.se> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1996Oct13.194807.1@eisner> kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > "not enough paying customers want". Ada has many virtues, but there > is not an endless supply of Ada compiler customers, so implementors > must direct their resources toward implementing the most "popular" > capabilities. > > There may be cultural bias, but it originates with the customer base. > I think you will find that every customer for Ada compilers has a > wishlist, and garbage collection is not near the top of most. Bias > toward the features most important for one's own needs is fully > reasonable. A chicken or egg problem if there ever was one. I certainly could use GC in what I'm doing - I now have had to basically roll my own for the particular application. We don't have the $$ to actually fund such an effort - say in GNAT by ACT. Not alone that's for sure. But I would bet that there are quite a few such people out here who want it, but can't fund such an effort alone. I also know of many others that make the claim that lack of GC is about the only thing that keeps them from using Ada. Chicken? Or egg? /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com