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On 07/30/2015 01:37 AM, EGarrulo wrote:
> 
> Hence, where is the magic please?  So far, I know that programming
> languages either offer garbage collection (and that works only for
> memory), or some kind of reference-counting (and that works for
> everything, but it requires some planning).
> 
> Yet, ironically, hardly ever somebody explains how a programming
> language is meant to be used.  You are always supposed to magically "get it".

And we're supposed to magically know what you think cannot be done in Ada
without manual memory management. You have mentioned "shared resources" a couple
of times without defining what a "resource" is or what it's shared between.
Maybe you mean sharing a data structure between tasks, though anyone who
understands Ada knows how to do that without access types or manual memory
management. In Ada one can implement many recursive data structures without
access types or manual memory management. Maybe that's what you mean.

It's clear you come from a C/++ background, and I suspect you are thinking in
C/++ terms.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in
space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on earth."
Monty Python's Meaning of Life
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