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From: lutz@iks-jena.de (Lutz Donnerhacke)
Subject: Garbage colletion
Date: 1999/10/31
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* 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.