From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b99897135d6631cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews2.google.com!not-for-mail From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: memory management and productivity Date: 24 Jun 2004 19:15:20 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <40d69121$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <1088086179.73158@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.102.146.44 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1088129720 9727 127.0.0.1 (25 Jun 2004 02:15:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1874 Date: 2004-06-24T19:15:20-07:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote in message news:<1088086179.73158@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>... > Stephen Leake wrote: > > 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. > > I prefer to manage registers according to the needs of my algorithms and > applications, rather than letting some unknown algorithm attempt to do it > for me. That's why I'll never use FORTRAN! I can imagine someone actually saying that. I knew an engineer who at one time refused to use a VT-100 terminal because he didn't trust it as much as he did punch cards. And he was a very good engineer, believe it or not.