From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!newsfeed-00.mathworks.com!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: in defense of GC Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:28:37 -0500 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1mahvxskejxe1$.tx7bjdqyo2oj$.dlg@40tude.net> <2tfy9vgph3.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <1g7m33bys8v4p.6p9cpsh3k031$.dlg@40tude.net> <14hm72xd3b0bq$.axktv523vay8$.dlg@40tude.net> <4zwt33xm4b.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <1j7neot6h1udi$.14vp2aos6z9l8.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls6.std.com 1170721718 19611 192.74.137.71 (6 Feb 2007 00:28:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:28:38 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (irix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cdepm9bxjyzGUcE6q1cXwhAd6m8= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8987 Date: 2007-02-05T19:28:37-05:00 List-Id: Ray Blaak writes: > Robert A Duff writes: >> > GC is one of the modern advances of computing science, period, akin to the use >> ^^^^^^ >> > of high level languages vs assembly, lexical scoping vs dynamic scoping, >> > strong typing vs no typing, etc. >> >> Modern? GC is many years old. > > Well, sure. But you do realize that mainstream computing is slowly and > inexorably reimplementing good old fashioned Lisp, right? :-) Yeah. ;-) Did you mean "reimplementing... Lisp, right?" or "reimplementing... Lisp right."? ;-) - Bob