Re: Ada GC (was about Java VM)

truesoft!sw@uunet.uu.net (Steve Witham)
4 Feb 1996 01:06:46 -0500

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From: truesoft!sw@uunet.uu.net (Steve Witham)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.compilers,comp.lang.ada
Date: 4 Feb 1996 01:06:46 -0500
Organization: SMDS Inc.
References: 96-01-037 96-01-137 96-02-032
Keywords: Ada, GC

root <root@linux_pc.org> wrote:
>It is real tough to sell runtime GC in safety-critical app's, period!
>The perception amongst the customers (& I agree with them) is that if
>you can't model the system well enough to build it without!!! GC, then
>you don't understand the system well enough to build it at all!


Funny, that's lot like the old argument against floating point. If
you don't even know the range and precision you need, then you don't
understand the system well enough to build it at all!


Last I heard, Charles Moore, Mr. FORTH, still says this.


Do you use floating point?


  --Steve
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