<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the discussion. I didn't know C++ was so bad. Is there any negatives about Python? <div><br></div><div>On government, I think ADA is about as dead as Cobol. They aren't requiring it in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. But I did see on comp.lang.Smalltalk where one huge government project in Smalltalk failed because they couldn't stop an unwanted ship from appearing in a simulation or something like that. So they went to C.</div>
<div><br></div><div>On a vehicle, the worst times I can imagine for a GC of even one second is just before a decision is needed to round a corner or stop. Is there a way to fan out GC's so they are more frequent but less time consuming? Perhaps a millisecond every second - let's see at 60 mph that would be 316800 feet per hour, 88 feet per second, 0.088 feet per millisecond or 1.056 inches. The Google car shoots for 1 cm accuracy - 1 in. is close enough. So a garbage collection of one second means 88 feet off course but a millisecond would work. </div>
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