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From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: memory management and productivity
Date: 23 Jun 2004 16:02:07 -0700
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Bj�rn Persson <spam-away@nowhere.nil> wrote in message news:<rcjCc.96718$dP1.318279@newsc.telia.net>...
> Martin Dowie wrote:
> 
> > "Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
> > news:bebbba07.0406222041.593ab7c3@posting.google.com...
> > 
> >>>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.
> > 
> > We could start the ball rolling on getting the AdaCL garbage collector 
>  into
> > Ada1X! :-)
> 
> Could someone enlighten me a little on the mysteries of garbage?
> 
> Since a garbage collector can apparently be compiled in as a library, 
> why isn't that good enough? Is it a great advantage to have it provided 
> by the compiler instead?

Having it as a library is fine with me -- as long as the library is
*standard* and available with every Ada compiler (or at least the main
free one).