Re:Notes on Ada
by webreac on Saturday June 06, 2015 @03:48PM
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Ada has a lot of qualities that are not given in this small article. For example, try to read the C++ standard and the Ada standard.
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Now read the Haskell prologue.
Haskell has GC and lazy evaluation. It's not even relevant.
If Ada doesn't have GC, it leaks, which isn't safe.
You're supposed to just statically allocate memory, which is probably adequate for many special-purpose applications. There are alternative solutions, though. Some compilers offer GC, but most people use manual dynamic allocation.