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-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!kanaga.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!cernne03.cern.ch!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:56:30 +0100 Organization: CERN News Message-ID: References: <1169636785.504223.139630@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> <45b8361a_5@news.bluewin.ch> <3pejpgfbki.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: abpc10883.cern.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: cernne03.cern.ch 1170060990 16002 137.138.37.241 (29 Jan 2007 08:56:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@@cern.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:56:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) In-Reply-To: <3pejpgfbki.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8673 Date: 2007-01-29T09:56:30+01:00 List-Id: Markus E Leypold wrote: > They are Java (basically for > people with a C++ mind that have seen the light and don't want to do > manual memory management any more Sorry, but that's a misconception - I don't remember when I was the last time I was messing with manual memory management in a regular C++ code. I estimate that in my current programming I call delete (or free or whatever) once in 5-10 kLOC. Is Java going to save me from this *nightmare*? Wow, I'm impressed. > The trend I see, is that GC is a must, clumsy pointer handling is out > and types are an option for those that can understand them. Indeed, looks like everybody is going in that direction. -- Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/ Programming : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/