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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e80a1497a689d8a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke) Subject: Re: Garbage colletion Date: 1999/11/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 542999526 Distribution: world Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <38120FAF.945ADD7D@hso.link.com> <7uutgd$87h$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <19991024.18033546@db3.max5.com> <38189268.43EB150F@mail.earthlink.net> <86ogdjtdwz.fsf@ppp-115-70.villette.club-internet.fr> <7vadsp$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> <1999Oct28.221910.1@eisner> <7vb3c4$8a21@news.cis.okstate.edu> <7vhfsl$791$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7vil9t$vmn$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: IKS GmbH Jena Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: * Robert Dewar wrote: >Well given the choice between implementing features that >customers are actively asking for, and those that none of >them are asking for, it is not hard to set priorities. Of course. >Remember, that unlike most (but not all) the readers here, I >know the garbage collected "world" very well, having, as I noted >before been chairman of WG2.1 for many years, and having >developed the GC algorithms for SPITBOL. Personally I would >very much like to see someone develop a GC implementation for >GNAT! As a well implemented storage type in order to include it into a 'required' appendix. >Indeed, the most constructive thing would be for the GC >advocates to spend their time doing that instead of trying to >encourage "them" to do it :-) :-) After learning Ada without GC most programmers learned to deal without it and have some problems to solve. So there is really no need for GC ;-)