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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: memory management and productivity
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 11:27:07 +0000 (UTC)
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Russ wrote:
> Yup. Look at the amazing popularity of Java. I would venture to say
> that it is due, in large part, to Java's garbage collection.

I don't believe for a minute that Java is popular "in large part" because
of GC - much more to do with Sun's $$$$ and a huge built in _standard_
library.

Having said that, I don't see any harm in making GC in Ada much more
mainstream.