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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 18:34:03 -0500
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Paul Rubin" <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote in message 
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> gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com writes:
>> Now, the surprise (for you):
>> - there is no memory to be freed
>> - there is no leak
>> - there is no storage management issue.
>
> There is storage management issue because there's all that string
> pasting and there's no issue of adding and deleting data like would
> happen in a real bogo-corporation as I described.

Surely. But some "Paul Rubin" guy just said:

"Yes, that's exactly right: the burden is moved from the application
programmer to the language implementation."

...and that's exactly what's happening here. The same thing would happen in 
a GC implementation - they tend to be even worse because the programmers 
almost never consider how much garbage they are creating.

And I doubt that it would be hard to add or delete data; for a program like 
this doing it on the fly is overkill anyway. Reading it from a file would be 
easy to add if you wanted to.

                               Randy.