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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,147f221051e5a63d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!8g2000hse.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: memory management in Ada: tedious without GC? Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 07:16:41 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <4ddef8bf-b5b1-4d7e-b75b-386cd6c8402c@l17g2000pri.googlegroups.com> <482E8A9D.5040401@obry.net> <8640a12f-da99-435f-8eb6-372e175cd5b9@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> <1955792.61POHJ8J7M@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.3.99.233 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1211120201 31416 127.0.0.1 (18 May 2008 14:16:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 14:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 8g2000hse.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.3.99.233; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:203 Date: 2008-05-18T07:16:41-07:00 List-Id: On 18 Maj, 08:52, Martin Krischik wrote: > Maciej Sobczak wrote: > > // and then: > > vector v(100); > > In which case we don't compare languages anymore but libraries Both are defined by the same standard document. I don't see why we should distinguish them - from practical perspective there is no distinction at all. Note also that language and its standard library usually have a rather fuzzy border, even in system-oriented languages like Ada and C++. In other words, it is difficult to separate the two. For example: is Root_Stream_Type a language or a library feature (hint: S'Write/Read/etc.)? -- Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com