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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
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Subject: Re: memory management in Ada: tedious without GC?
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 15:45:58 +0100
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On Sat, 17 May 2008 09:47:37 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak
<see.my.homepage@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 17 Maj, 16:30, Brian Drummond <brian_drumm...@btconnect.com> wrote:
>
>> But if you appreciate that about half the patterns in the "Gang of Four"
>> book only exist because of defects in C++
>
>Please name those patterns.

I must apologise, I'm going to have to wimp out of providing them, at
least until I can re-read the book properly. 

But a sketch answer; a lot of them seemed to be about how to discipline
oneself to achieve various aspects of information hiding or separation
between interface and implementation, that a better type system would
have achieved automatically, or nearly so.

- Brian