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Re: Garbage Collection
- From: kaih at khms dot westfalen dot de (Kai Henningsen)
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 01 Sep 2002 10:33:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: Garbage Collection
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- Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding?
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dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote on 31.08.02 in <20020831115757.62F37F2D75@nile.gnat.com>:
> <<1. Their garbage collection guy worked on GC for 8 years straight, full
> time. Getting it right is tough.
> >>
>
> One useful source of information here is all the published work on Algol-68
> which was the first general purpose language to require garbage collection.
Surely Lisp is a general purpose language *much* older than Algol 68?
MfG Kai