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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-10 01:40:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died) Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 08:40:04 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0304240950.45114a39@posting.google.com> <4a885870.0304291909.300765f@posting.google.com> <416273D61ACF7FEF.82C1D1AC17296926.FF0BFD4934A03813@lp.airnews.net> <9fa75d42.0305010621.55e99deb@posting.google.com> <17cd177c.0305011129.2eab5fb8@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305090536.49431321@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305090946.d99f466@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1052556004 7960 129.241.83.78 (10 May 2003 08:40:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 08:40:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63466 comp.object:63149 comp.lang.ada:37139 misc.misc:14070 Date: 2003-05-10T08:40:04+00:00 List-Id: soft-eng wrote: > PS: Now if Ada had GC, that could have changed > things a lot. People would have used it despite > all the warts. And what warts might that be? > A LARGE amount of debugging time in C/C++ is spent > dealing with dynamic memory bugs! But Ada had > only a half-hearted nod to GC, no actual GC support. http://www.datanation.com/fallacies/ -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/