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Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS?
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On 07/29/2015 04:45 PM, EGarrulo wrote:
> 
> For me, right now, the #1 annoyance -- which could easily become a deal-breaker -- is that Ada requires manual memory management.  For a
> language that qualify itself as safe, this is contradictory (outside
> embedded development).  Other modern languages either offer garbage
> collection, or smart pointers in the standard library.

Unless you're implementing a dynamic data structure, it's highly unlikely that
you need to use access types at all.

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Jeff Carter
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