I know GC wasn't popular in the days when Ada was developed and for the main use case of embedded programming it is still not a good choice.

But considering that Ada is a general purpose programming language why wasn't a partial and optional (traces only explicitly tagged memory objects) garbage collector introduced in later revisions of the language and the compiler implementations.

I simply can't think of developing a normal desktop application without a garbage collector anymore.

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