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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham 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!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: David Starner Subject: Re: memory management and productivity User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <40d15023$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <40d69121$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:18:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.72.69.141 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1088032705 12.72.69.141 (Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:18:25 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:18:25 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1838 Date: 2004-06-23T23:18:25+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:18:09 -0700, Russ wrote: > Oh, the desktop developers are not "demanding" it? Of course they > aren't, because they aren't using Ada in the first place. And why > aren't they using Ada? Perhaps in part because it doesn't have GC. So instead they use ... C++. Ada is not going to make a dent in Perl, Python, or Lisp(s), because they aren't designed for the same types of jobs. As for Java, ACT produced a version of GNAT (JGNAT) that compiled to the JVM (and thus was GCed). They found no (few?) takers, and stopped supporting it. GC just ain't going to get a bunch of programmers using Ada.