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- From: David N. Smith <dnsmith@watson.ibm.com>
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- Subject: Re: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Wicked ...
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 14:32:27 GMT
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- In article <4je5rq$7qg@mimas.brunel.ac.uk> Francesco Fantauzzi,
- mapgfgf@brunel.ac.uk writes:
- >A language that is proposed as "general purpose" shouldn't offer
- >"compulsory" garbage collection (g.c.). A general purpose language should
- >give you a chance to implement the g.c. you like the most.
-
- I agree!
-
- Since we're all experts in GC, it is really stupid to force us all to use
- the same garbage collector. Same way with file systems. How in h*ll can
- any vendor be so dumb as to force us all to use the same d*mn file
- system. I certainly know better than they do how to write a file system.
- How dare they cop out and use the trash shipped with the operating
- system. And MAKE me use their stupid floating point system. It's BINARY.
- I want a DECIMAL floating point system. Decimal floats are much better
- since values convert with stupid one-bit-off errors. I want to write my
- own! Stupid languge vendors. How dare they call their language General
- Purpose when it FORCES me to do things I DON'T WANNA DO WANNA DO WANNA DO
- ...
-
- Dave
-
- BTW, this is a really hot area just now. I've had three former COBOL
- shops call me just this week looking for bodies to write garbage
- collectors. They have new house policies that require different garbage
- collectors for each application since it is obvious that each generates
- different garbage. Each has let it self fall behind the technology curve
- in GCs. So, I'm about to take an offer for $175,000/yr to write a
- garbage-collector generator (YAGCCC: Yet Another Garbage-Collector
- Compiler Compiler) for one of them them.
-
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