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From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
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Subject: Re: memory management and productivity
Date: 22 Jun 2004 10:03:04 +0200
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>>>>> "DS" == David Starner <dvdeug@email.ro> writes:

    DS> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:03:55 -0700, Russ wrote:
    >> Are you saying that an Ada compiler can implement GC or not? That
    >> seems a bit inconsistent to me. How can the same language have it both
    >> ways?

    DS> Every language has it both ways. You could link the Boehm-Weiser garbage
    DS> collector into a C program without any change to the source outside a
    DS> couple defines on the command line. A Lisp interpreter could choose not to
    DS> garbage collect memory. Like interpretation, GC is more a feature of
    DS> choices and tradition than an enforced standard.

But the only language which I have used so far which got it quite
right IMHO is Modula-3. The programmer is free to choose, and the
language guarantees that GC is available.

<snip>

-- 
   C++: The power, elegance and simplicity of a hand grenade.