Re: memory management and productivity

[18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)]

Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:<qc2e5zFQJM1y@eisner.encompasserve.org>...
> In article <bebbba07.0406222041.593ab7c3@posting.google.com>, 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) writes:
> 
> > Bingo. That's exactly what Ada should have. And it shouldn't take a
> > rocket scientist to figure that out.
> 
> ACT says they have not really seen market demand from their customers,
> and some of them are presumably rocket scientists.
> 
> Absent customer demand, there seems no justification for a _requirement_
> since Ada already has a _permission_.

The rocket scientists probably don't need or want automated memory
management for their real-time applications, but desktop application
developers probably do. Why not make them both happy?

Oh, the desktop developers are not "demanding" it? Of course they
aren't, because they aren't using Ada in the first place. And why
aren't they using Ada? Perhaps in part because it doesn't have GC.

Why wait for your current customers to "demand" something before
adding a basic feature that could turn *potential* customers into
*actual* customers? I'm afraid that such short-sighted views will only
perpetuate the demise of Ada.