Re: GC pros and cons
Re: GC pros and cons
- Subject: Re: GC pros and cons
- From: Chris Idou <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:08:12 -0700 (PDT)
On Jun 24, 2009, at 09:14, Philip Aker wrote:
> Like Gwynne, I'm comfortable with the traditional "reap what you sow" philosophy. This has benefits in that the basic policy spills over into other areas of programming and gradually, one
>learns as a matter of habit, to account for things all the time. This is good but can be lumped in with many other things learned from the school of hard knocks. With GC, the attitude is like one
>could fire a shotgun into a crowd and the walk away because the system will take responsibility for the consequences. Maybe you could say that's a moral issue. But it's certainly not
>something children should be taught in school.
I think it depends what language you weaned yourself on. If you've used Lisp or some other functional language, manual reclamation is an unthinkable monstrosity. If you weaned yourself on C or similar languages, manual reclamation seems like the default state of play.
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