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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Garbage colletion
Date: 1999/11/01
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In article <slrn81osi4.940.lutz@belenus.iks-jena.de>,
  lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke) wrote:
> * Robert Dewar wrote:
> >More accurately, he said that it would not be added unless
> >there was significant customer demand -- there is none!
>
> This typ of reasoning is invalid, because a customer who
learned to deal
> with a missing feature clearly does not need it afterwards.
This is
> especially true after all programming examples which required
GC are deleted
> from the hard disk. (Although they were smaller and easier to
understand.)
>
> This is no cry for GC.

Actually that last comment is a bit confusing, because the
particular issue on which I made the comment you quote above
was infinite precision integers :-) :-)

Of course you can also claim the above reasoning is invalid for
those as well, and indeed your general argument applies to
absolutely any neat idea that anyone might have under any
circumstance, but we need a better discriminator for priorities
than this :-)


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