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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:36:40 +0000
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On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, learn2code@yourdesk.com wrote:

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|"On 2009-07-29, Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net> wrote:              |
|> fft1976 <fft1976@gmail.com> writes:                                       |
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|> My problem with it is the lack of a garbage collection. That is just not  |
|> acceptable to me these days. If you manually allocate memory, then you    |
|> pretty much have memory bugs, it's as simple as that.                     |
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|That is simply not true. If you don't know how to do resource management    |
|properly, you're not ready to write commercial code in any environment.     |
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|[..]                                                                        |
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|> Also, I find the OO notation a little quirky.                             |
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|That's a tough proposition from someone advocating C++. [..]                |
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|[..]"                                                                       |
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Ray Blaak has written commercial code and he prefers Ada instead of C++.