Re: memory management and productivity

[18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)]

"Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> wrote in message news:<cb0vjl$8hp$1@sparta.btinternet.com>...
> "Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
> news:bebbba07.0406181510.37b8f5e2@posting.google.com...
> > > 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.
> 
> Hopefully this thread will breath the life of publicity to this package then
> :-)
> 
> 
> > However, I am curious about why initialize and finalize are different
> > and better than constructors and destructors in C++.
> 
> I never made such a claim.

Well, if initialize and finalize are fundamentally no different than
constructors and destructors, then I conclude that Ada does not have
automated memory management any more than C++ has it. (I may be a bit
slow, but I catch on eventually.)

As for using a library that has memory management built in, that
sounds great. I'd just feel a bit better about it if it were in a
standard library that everyone agrees on and comes with the language,
like STL in C++. Then you could honestly say that Ada has automated
memory management built in. (And it would be better than Java's
because it would be optional.)