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- From: Cyber Surfer <cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Why garbage collection?
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 96 16:58:27 GMT
- Organization: The Wildcard Killer Butterfly Breeding Ground
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- In article <4eb75f$l2t@cnn.Princeton.EDU> tim@franck "Tim Hollebeek" writes:
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- > Cyber Surfer (cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >
- > : It was published in 1976, so its one of a number of books from
- > : around that time which I love. Sadly, many of the techniques in this
- > : particular book seem to have been forgotten. Is anyone still using
- > : coral rings, multilists and inverted multilists? Have these data
- > : structures become "obselete", like reference counting, cylinder-surface
- > : indexing, etc?
- >
- > Reference counting is obsolete? I better go rush over and tell that
- > to all the C++ programmers who use it extensively because they don't
- > have GC in the language :-) Heck, Byte even published an article on
- > how to write a refcounting pointer class in the last few months. Not
- > that Byte is exactly at the Leading Edge of programming, but it does
- > show that plenty of Real World programmers still do things that way.
-
- I stopped reading Byte a few years ago, easily 5 years after they
- lost interest in programmers. ;-) If you want to know about basic
- garbage collecting, I'd recommend a computer science book, as it'll
- probably be more up to date. Beware of many programming books, as
- I've lost count of the number of tutorials that use examples without
- much (if any) error checking. _That's_ a very bad way to code!
-
- > Whether they _should_ is another story :-)
-
- Do Real World programmers know anything about computer science?
- I dunno. "If it works, it must be ok" could be enough for some.
- I'm still using code I wrote 10 years ago, so I need to take a
- little bit more care...
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