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: <m3d8akuriz.fsf@mheaney.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 35C3FAFD.DDA89121@earthlink.net
Jay Martin <jaymmartin@earthlink.net> writes:
> Look at the Ada Booch components, not a single "free" in the whole
> library. Surely, he Booch was expecting GC.
This is incorrect.
His reason for not using Free is NOT because he was "expecting GC." He
explains in his book that he didn't use Unchecked_Deallocation because
it is non-portable.
The Booch components had a very specific taxonomy. Only "unmanaged"
components expect a garbage collector. The "managed" forms do their own
garbage collection (using a storage manager, another component).
In practice, for a data structures library, a garbage collector is NOT
necessary. Ada 95 gives you all the tools you need to implement memory
reclaimation yourself, very simply.
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1998-07-28 0:00 ` Why C++ is successful Rakesh Malhotra
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Ell
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Ell
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Dave Martin
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-07-29 0:00 ` falis
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-07-31 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-08-02 0:00 ` Lars Farm
1998-08-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-07-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Juan Carlos Gil Montoro
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Jay Martin
1998-07-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Ell
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Larry Elmore
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Ell
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Jeffrey C. Dege
1998-08-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Ell
1998-07-30 0:00 ` Ell
1998-07-29 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-07-29 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Michael Young
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Rakesh Malhotra
1998-07-29 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-08-06 0:00 Robert Dewar
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Jason Stokes
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-11 0:00 ` n
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert L. Spooner
1998-08-10 0:00 ` Darren New
1998-08-07 0:00 ` harald.mueller
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Patrick Logan
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-08-07 0:00 ` Timothy Welch
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Jeffrey C. Dege
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Patrick Logan
1998-08-10 0:00 ` Laurent GUERBY
1998-08-12 0:00 ` Andy Ward
1998-08-12 0:00 ` Matt Kennel
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-13 0:00 ` nasser
1998-08-19 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1998-08-18 0:00 ` Martin Tom Brown
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Martin
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Rick Smith
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Rick Smith
1998-08-15 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1998-08-15 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Patrick Doyle
1998-08-15 0:00 ` Mr Ada
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Ell
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-08-17 0:00 ` Patrick Logan
1998-08-18 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1998-08-11 0:00 ` stilcom
1998-08-12 0:00 ` Jeffrey C. Dege
1998-08-12 0:00 ` Andrew Koenig
1998-08-14 0:00 ` Stefan Tilkov
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Phlip
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Larry Elmore
1998-08-08 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
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1998-08-06 0:00 Robert Dewar
1998-08-06 0:00 ` Martin Dowie
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