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In <By1FGL.CKF@wizzy.com> andyr@wizzy.com (Andy Rabagliati) writes
about Occam and dynamic memory:

>Occam was designed as a parallel programming language, with concurrency
>implemented inter- and intra-processor.

>For a transputer way out on a limb somewhere, running out of memory
>resource is fatal.

Indeed.  So _programs_ should make sure they don't run out of memory.

Is this best accomplished by removing support for heap-based dynamic
memory from the language?  Or should you provide both static and
dynamic memory allocation, and tell people about the pros and cons
of each?

Why do you think it is impossible to run out of memory with static
memory allocation?  Don't fixed-size arrays fill up?  Don't you
actually fill up one of the fixed-size arrays quicker than one of
the dynamic-size arrays?

Statically allocating the available memory does not solve the
out-of-memory problem, but actually makes it worse!

Rob

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