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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b99897135d6631cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: memory management and productivity Date: 24 Jun 2004 09:29:06 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <40d15023$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <40d69121$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1088083769 87652 212.85.156.195 (24 Jun 2004 13:29:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:29:29 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1852 Date: 2004-06-24T09:29:06-04:00 Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes: > In article , 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) writes: > > > Bingo. That's exactly what Ada should have. And it shouldn't take a > > rocket scientist to figure that out. > > ACT says they have not really seen market demand from their customers, > and some of them are presumably rocket scientists. Me, for one :). I prefer to manage memory according to the needs of my algorithms and applications, rather than letting some unknown algorithm attempt to do it for me. Ada lets me do this quite nicely. One thing I would like is better testing tools for the GNAT allocator. That's a vendor issue, not a language issue. -- -- Stephe