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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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From: Ray Blaak <rAYblaaK@STRIPCAPStelus.net>
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fft1976 <fft1976@gmail.com> writes:
> > � � �- Ada is best suited for large teams and/or critical software, thus
> > it may be overkill for my work, OTH it could have anything I might
> > happen to need.

Ada is fine as far as it goes, and there is a GNU Ada compiler which helps a
lot. 

My problem with it is the lack of a garbage collection. That is just not
acceptable to me these days. If you manually allocate memory, then you pretty
much have memory bugs, it's as simple as that.

It's better than C/C++ for sure, but I remember plenty of memory exceptions all
the same.

Also, I find the OO notation a little quirky.

> Ada is also 2x slower, but less suitable for your purposes (verbose,
> less memory safe than OCaml, free compilers produce GPL-only code)

I am pretty sure the GPL-only thing is not true.

My own language choice now would be Java or C#. I am investigating Clojure
since I always have a fondness for Scheme/Lisps, and a modern Lisp on the JVM
solves a lot of problems.

OCaml is something I want to know better as well. Any of the ML-family
languages should improve your type theoretical skills.

-- 
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