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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Unix Haters
- Date: 28 Mar 96 21:23:56 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
- Message-ID: <danpop.828048236@rscernix>
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- In <4jea7b$at1@hearst.cac.psu.edu> RLS@psu.edu (Robert L. Spooner, AD3K) writes:
-
- >In <dewar.827955102@schonberg>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
- >>"Unix's main charm is and always has been that it runs on cheap hardware."
- >>
- >>Another chuckle. Typical Unix systems today require skads of memory,
- >
- >Of course, the only reason all that memory is needed is because of memory
- >leaks in the X-window system. All those millions of lines of C code...
-
- Are you sure you actually understand the meaning of the expression
- "memory leak"? Methinks not.
-
- X is big because it's big, not because it contains memory leaks (it usually
- doesn't). If you're looking for memory leaks, have a look at Perl 4 and
- (at least) the first releases of Perl 5.
-
- Dan
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