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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 19:41:12 -0500 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Languages don't matter. A mathematical refutation Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 20:41:18 -0400 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <87h9t95cly.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <04f0759d-0377-4408-a141-6ad178f055ed@googlegroups.com> <871tk1z62n.fsf@theworld.com> <87oan56rpn.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.79.216.176 X-Trace: sv3-sY9MMVe1s0/pbFSjXZ9K32juWZ6xlxnN30W7IIN5//K/ANRLCWTiB26PEUoZbxjHdavhxWp8LI4oHZF!RdYl41xj0fh/lquJVbAplT02x5kNN7NT892ij6y9rjkF8Mem6L6WULr3iij6UdXJjqHVfikM2YXp!86g6dFqIaFgR3y85C99ry66Roacu X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2070 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:25409 Date: 2015-04-03T20:41:18-04:00 List-Id: On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 10:34:44 -0700, Paul Rubin declaimed the following: >level. Java (not C) is probably Ada's main competition for big new >projects these days, and GC is probably Java's main attraction over Ada. Yet that is also the feature that tends to keep it from the realms I'm currently working in... Avionics tend to use a scheme in which all heap allocation is done during an initialization phase (pre-allocating queue entries, for example), and NO memory allocation/freeing is performed once the system transitions to "operational". -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/