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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-27 19:38:11 PST Path: news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:38:09 -0500 Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:38:14 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: <3F74366B.7050303@noplace.com> <3F74DF86.30206@comcast.net> <3F75A00A.2000007@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <3F75A00A.2000007@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.53 X-Trace: sv3-VAgC1f68boDSykKl4Mo/5ru8TgyPqbl8/8le7TQHc0vrb5ntVybWZ133sWbuvz0CC4Xf8c6lbIl1LL3!OiMLyEbpwuO1iFUxrGd7W4Sc80SZv+hCojjt8ayNW5tp74gdp0Ar1ymi9vn6W1tddr1eGE3WDYJA X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:58 Date: 2003-09-27T21:38:14-05:00 List-Id: > noticed.) Hence, I find it difficult to understand why people regularly > bring up GC as some sort of "significant shortcoming" of Ada. The only thing I can think of, is that the lack _could_ be interpreted as contrary to Ada's safety goals. "We don't need garbage collection because a good programmer should determine where it's needed and ensure it's there." "But whether good or not, experience teaches us that programmers don't do this." Doesn't that sound a lot like our disputes with Ada-bashers about strong typing? -- Wes Groleau ----------- I've been framed! ... http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9612.html