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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,b99897135d6631cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed101.telia.com!nf02.dk.telia.net!news-stob.telia.net!telia.net!217.209.241.173.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: memory management and productivity References: <40d15023$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <40d69121$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:21:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1088011319 217.209.116.179 (Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:21:59 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 19:21:59 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1815 Date: 2004-06-23T17:21:59+00:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article , 18k11tm00= 1@sneakemail.com (Russ) writes: >=20 >>Bingo. That's exactly what Ada should have. And it shouldn't take a >>rocket scientist to figure that out. >=20 > ACT says they have not really seen market demand from their customers, > and some of them are presumably rocket scientists. Well, I'd think rocket scientists don't want garbage collection. Their=20 programs are real-time systems. Developers of desktop applications are more likely to want garbage=20 collection, but very few of them use Ada, and of those who do, probably=20 very few can afford support contracts from ACT. --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu