From: Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful
Date: 1998/08/02
Date: 1998-08-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34svvvf6l.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1dd4w22.16p27c7en0bswN@dialup119-1-10.swipnet.se
lars.farm@ite.mh.se (Lars Farm) writes:
> Matthew Heaney <matthew_heaney@acm.org> wrote:
>
> > It was during his Turing Award speech that Tony Hoare warned that "the
> > fate of mankind" was a stake because Ada included ... exceptions!
> > Imagine what he'd say about a language that mandated garbage collection.
>
> Are you saying tht GC would introduce a larger risk for incorrect
> programs than exceptions? If so, why?
What I was trying to say is that Hoare objected to the size of the
langauge. Mandating garbage collection would only have made the
language larger.
I'm only guessing what Tony would think. Maybe he'd actually like
having a garbage collector.
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1998-08-01 0:00 ` Jay Martin
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