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- Subject: Re: Why garbage collection?
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 96 16:30:32 GMT
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- In article <DM5s1w.4D0.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
- jeff@cogsci.ed.ac.uk "Jeff Dalton" writes:
-
- > On the other hand, Smalltalk terminology seemed to be fairly well
- > established by the time C++ started to be widely known. (When was
- > the Byte Smalltalk issue, for instance?) (We might also consider
- > the publication dates of various books.)
-
- August 1981. I still have that issue - it was the first copy of Byte
- that I bought. It was only a few months later that I was able to
- understand it, when I read it at 3 AM, one sleepless night. I skipped
- the intro, and started with an article on _programming_. Then it clicked.
-
- The August 1985 issue of Byte introduced me to the idea of functional
- programming. It may have been less than a year later when I wrote my
- first Lisp interpreter. A few years ago, I discovered Dylan...
-
- > I knew something about Smalltalk as well, before Smalltalk-80.
- >
- > (Not that my knowledge shows very much on its own.)
-
- True. ;-) However, it still tells us something significant about you.
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