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 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!news2.google.com!proxad.net!134.158.69.22.MISMATCH!in2p3.fr!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!carbon.eu.sun.com!btnet-feed5!btnet!news.btopenworld.com!not-for-mail From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: memory management and productivity Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 09:04:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: BT Openworld Message-ID: References: <40d15023$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: host81-154-190-178.range81-154.btcentralplus.com X-Trace: sparta.btinternet.com 1087635894 8761 81.154.190.178 (19 Jun 2004 09:04:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-complaints@lists.btinternet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 09:04:54 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1687 Date: 2004-06-19T09:04:54+00:00 List-Id: "Russ" <18k11tm001@sneakemail.com> wrote in message news:bebbba07.0406181510.37b8f5e2@posting.google.com... > > You will be delighted to here that Ada already supports GC thought the > > use of Controlled types then. And if that weren't enough you can grap > > "Boehm-Demers-Weiser" GC from AdaCL @ http://adacl.sourceforge.net/. > > I am indeed delighted to hear that. And if Ada really has automatic > memory management capabilities, more people need to know it. Hopefully this thread will breath the life of publicity to this package then :-) > However, I am curious about why initialize and finalize are different > and better than constructors and destructors in C++. I never made such a claim. Cheers -- Martin