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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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On Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 10:41:33 PM UTC+2, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> On 18-05-04 01:27 , Randy Brukardt wrote:
> 
>    [snip]
> 
> > There is no realistic chance that Ada will
> > ever be changed enough to make it amenable to GC.
> 
> Ouch and wow, when did that direction change?
> 
> As I remember it, for a long time the mantra was that Ada (83, 95, ...) 
> was compatible with GC, but vendors did not implement GC because there 
> was no immediate demand from the current users (chicken and egg situation).
> 

Indeed, 
RM 4.8(15/3):
"27  {AI05-0229-1} Implementations are permitted, but not required, to provide garbage collection."



http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/aarm12_w_tc1/html/AA-4-8.html
http://www.ada-auth.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ai05s/ai05-0229-1.txt?rev=1.28


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~egilhh