Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?

[EGarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 10:23:23 AM UTC+2, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> Is this about GC only? Having had to fight GC in Java,
> at a time when it was assumed that GC would magically have
> no effect on the program, I'm not sure this isn't a bit
> optimistic. But surely it is what one should say.

This is because you didn't use Java like it is meant to be used!
Hahaha! I am just (half) joking, after having replied to a
similar criticism just now.

> For completeness, management of resources other than
> memory, if tied to GC, becomes uncontrolled happenstance.

Of course.  But manual resource management is too error-prone to
leave it completely in the hands of programmers, at least all
the time.  It is too easy to push the complexity on the
programmer by providing "Unchecked" facilities and then forget
about it.

> In Ada, use the stack, if possible!
> In Ada 2005, use containers, if possible!

Otherwise use C++ and its "shared/weak pointer" support ;)