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From: mg@dsd.camb.inmet.com (Mitch Gart)
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection in Ada
Date: 1996/10/24
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Saying that a programmer is sloppy by relying on garbage collection to
help automatically manage memory is kind of like saying they're wimpy 
for using a high level language when they could do everything in assembler.  
Nonsense, I say.  Whenever programmers can make use of a high level 
abstraction which helps them concentrate on the problem domain instead of 
the language and mechanics of programming, that's a good thing, IMHO.

- Mitch Gart