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- From: blume@zayin.cs.princeton.edu (Matthias Blume)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Why garbage collection?
- Date: 03 Feb 1996 23:20:51 GMT
- Organization: Princeton University
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- In-reply-to: Cyber Surfer's message of Sat, 03 Feb 96 21:17:38 GMT
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- In article <823382258snz@wildcard.demon.co.uk> Cyber Surfer <cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk> writes:
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- In article <4f02tb$5bb@news2.ios.com>
- vlad@gramercy.ios.com "Vlastimil Adamovsky" writes:
-
- > 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.
-
- My experience is that programming in C, you develop a blind spot.
- Because some things are hard to do, you don't see them as possible
- ways of coding something.
-
- > I would wish to our software industry more real programmers in the New
- > Year 1996.
-
- More programmers with blind spots?
-
- Well, I also think that the world would be a better place if it were
- full of people like Vlastimil. We wouldn't be inhibited in our work
- by unnecessary knowledge, we would be so full of ourselves... it would
- be awesome. We would be all so smart, that real-life problems would
- be so infinitely small that in order to spice things up we would use
- all the wrong tools (or no tools at all) to get things done. Only
- this way we would find excitemement and satisfaction in life.
-
- I wish I were a Real Guy, with a macho attitude, just like Vlastimil.
- BTW, women just *love* macho programmers.
-
- Cheers,
- --
- -Matthias
-