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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,a498aa1404ef5d87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Matthew Heaney Subject: Re: Why C++ is successful Date: 1998/08/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 377155330 Sender: matt@mheaney.ni.net References: <35AE4621.2EBC7F6A@eiffel.com> <6p83vj$657$1@news.intellistor.com> <35B79E7D.6068DCDF@eiffel.com> <6pg7fg$qhi$1@news.interlog.com> <901533851.20058.0.nnrp-04.9e980ba3@news.demon.co.uk> <35be2a94.57352308@netnews.msn.com> <6plvgl$eaf$1@news-1.news.gte.net> <35bebe5f.95187031@netnews.msn.com> <6pn9af$hqd$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> <35BF49E8.136D75C2@earthling.net> <35C371D1.2E42A046@earthlink.net> <35C3FAFD.DDA89121@earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 00:55:36 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-08-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jay Martin 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.