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,b99897135d6631cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: memory management and productivity Date: 18 Jun 2004 16:10:10 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <40d15023$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.102.146.44 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1087600210 17289 127.0.0.1 (18 Jun 2004 23:10:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:10:10 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1676 Date: 2004-06-18T16:10:10-07:00 List-Id: "Martin Dowie" wrote in message news:<40d15023$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net>... > "Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message > news:bebbba07.0406162056.334745ed@posting.google.com... > > The following is an excerpt from an article featured on Slashdot today > > (6/16/04). The excerpted paragraph is not even the main topic of the > > article, but it made wonder what chance Ada has in the future without > > automatic memory management. It seems to me that garbage collection > > should be optional within the language. > > You will be delighted to here that Ada already supports GC thought the > use of Controlled types then. And if that weren't enough you can grap > "Boehm-Demers-Weiser" GC from AdaCL @ http://adacl.sourceforge.net/. I am indeed delighted to hear that. And if Ada really has automatic memory management capabilities, more people need to know it. However, I am curious about why initialize and finalize are different and better than constructors and destructors in C++.