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From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ)
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Subject: Re: memory management and productivity
Date: 24 Jun 2004 12:26:34 -0700
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Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote in message news:<mailman.151.1088083768.391.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>...
> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Me, for one :).
> 
> I prefer to manage memory according to the needs of my algorithms and
> applications, rather than letting some unknown algorithm attempt to do
> it for me. Ada lets me do this quite nicely.

What's your point? Because you don't want automated memory management,
nobody else should want it either? What I'm suggesting would give you
what you want and it would also give the desktop and web developers
what they want. In other words, it would make Ada a more versatile
language. Maybe you don't think that's wise, but if you don't, please
don't complain about the fact that Java dwarfs Ada in popularity (and
is now being adapted big-time for real-time use by the military).