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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> writes:

> The paper concentrates on C and C++.  While I agree that Ada
> programmers tend to do less dynamic memory allocation than C/C++
> people, large programs will usually have to do some.  Think about
> containers.  I'd be interested to know what your personal experience
> is.  I'd expect you spend less than 30% of your time but more than 0%
> doing memory management.  Of course, if you only ever allocate on the
> stack and never on the heap (explicitly, that is), then you have no
> need for a garbage collector since you don't create any garbage :)

I wrote a container library that does all the memory management I
need. I tested it thoroughly, and now I use it. So I had some initial
investment, but now I spend 0% of my time "doing memory management". 

I believe that is the "Ada way".

Hmm. Except when I'm forced to use someone else's code, that doesn't
use my (or any) container library. Then I have to fix it.

-- 
-- Stephe