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Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else...
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> > But GC gives you much more
> > flexibility.  For example, maybe you want to allocate a container and
> > then pass it to another thread to work on it.
>=20
> As if you could not do this without GC.

Actually most GC implementations don't handle cross thread allocations well=
. Ada was created with facility to support GC and possible to use the Boehm=
 GC with it and some have in the past. However, a well designed Ada program=
 rarely has much use for GC and it tends to sloppy dev most of the time.

David Botton