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From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
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Subject: Re: memory management and productivity
Date: 22 Jun 2004 21:41:20 -0700
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Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ole-hjalmar.kristensen@substitute_employer_here.com> wrote in message news:<wvbrr7s8qatj.fsf@sun.com>...
> >>>>> "DS" == David Starner <dvdeug@email.ro> writes:
> 
>     DS> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:03:55 -0700, Russ wrote:
>     >> Are you saying that an Ada compiler can implement GC or not? That
>     >> seems a bit inconsistent to me. How can the same language have it both
>     >> ways?
> 
>     DS> Every language has it both ways. You could link the Boehm-Weiser garbage
>     DS> collector into a C program without any change to the source outside a
>     DS> couple defines on the command line. A Lisp interpreter could choose not to
>     DS> garbage collect memory. Like interpretation, GC is more a feature of
>     DS> choices and tradition than an enforced standard.
> 
> But the only language which I have used so far which got it quite
> right IMHO is Modula-3. The programmer is free to choose, and the
> language guarantees that GC is available.

Bingo. That's exactly what Ada should have. And it shouldn't take a
rocket scientist to figure that out.