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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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"Egil H H" <ehh.public@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:78ca61a2-5d11-46f4-9ce7-7fce500ca1dd@googlegroups.com...
> 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."

Yes, it's permitted -- but nothing says that it can be useful. :-)

It could be useful on types that have no subcomponents that need 
finalization -- but that rules out most of the Ada library and a good 
percentage of the open source libraries out there as well.

                              Randy.