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- From: vlad@gramercy.ios.com (Vlastimil Adamovsky)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Why garbage collection?
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 16:45:17 GMT
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- Cyber Surfer <cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >.....typical C++
- >development system will cost about $300.
-
- >So, it's there and its dirt cheap. No wonder so many people use it.
- >--
-
- And if somebody miss something that is not there, it is very easy to
- make his own exrensions. For example two years ago I needed somthing
- like "metaclasses" in my C++ program and RTTI was not available to me
- yet. So have implemented a Windows specific version. It works great.
- When I needed messaging system (to be able to send messages in
- Smalltalk fashion) I could implement it. When I needed to implement
- event handking mechanism, it was easy.
- So I see a value in an extensibility of the language that is already
- very powerful and complex (in positive sense).
-
- Do I need Garbage Collection? NO! Never ever it was needed in my
- programs. People crying for GC should see DB Tools.h++ written by
- RogueWave and then they would understand why it is not necessary.
-
- I would wish to our software industry more real programmers in the New
- Year 1996.
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- * Vlastimil Adamovsky *
- * Smalltalk, C++ and Envelop development *
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