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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,103b407e8b68350b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-07 09:47:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea.. Date: 7 Jan 2003 09:47:04 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.76.54.20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1041961624 11224 127.0.0.1 (7 Jan 2003 17:47:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Jan 2003 17:47:04 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32685 Date: 2003-01-07T17:47:04+00:00 List-Id: "Robert C. Leif" wrote in message news:... > I have just spent a total of 12 of hours trying to open a file with > Windows > XP Professional. This file was created under Windows 98 and still opens > under 98. The customers would flock to something that worked! > In case this bug happens to anyone else, shorten the file names under an > old > version of Windows. Evidently XP has a constraint that does not exist in > the > older versions. Although XP has not crashed itself, many applications > still > crash including Windows Explorer. Rebooting once a day is a reasonable > means > of eliminating pointer garbage. Ada needs commercial products. Given that few if any current Ada implementations provide garbage collection, the programmers would still have to manage memory via new/unchecked_deallocation And the same programmers who leak memory or create dangling pointers with new/delete/malloc/free would do the same thing with new/unchecked_deallocation.