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-Thread: 103376,b99897135d6631cc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-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: <40d69121$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:20:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.72.71.211 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1088209227 12.72.71.211 (Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:20:27 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:20:27 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1905 Date: 2004-06-26T00:20:27+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 12:13:34 +0200, Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote: > You *can* do that with Java. You can argue that > programmers do not need garbage collection, but you cannot stop them > from wanting it. Who is wanting it? I'm not seeing the people on this newsgroup demanding it, except those thinking of it as a magic bullet. I'm not seeing the people who use Ada running out and writing garbage collectors. I'm not seeing all the people that are writing code in C and C++, which makes up a large percentage of any Linux distribution, using garbage collectors. Gnome and KDE have no reason not to have a garbage collector, given the number of libraries they already depend on. But they choose not to. All this indicates that GC is not important to many programmers.