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From: Patrick Scheible <kkt@itchy.serv.net>
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espie@liafa.jussieu.fr (Marc Espie) writes:
> >There is many things that was not even concerned in the seventies and
> >eighties, such as resuability, portability, information hidding and stuff.
> >So, the techniques have lot changed and there is more and more valuable
> >documents on the newer way of implementing old concepts (nowaday's GC
> >implementations are just crazy, it almost worth any custom made memory
> >management. There is just almost no reason to not use GC now ::).
>
> Like wow, I was around in the eighties, and I haven't noticed portability
> and reusability coming out of nowhere... It was around pretty much forever...
Yes, portability and reusability have been concerns since Fortran and
COBOL were invented.
-- Patrick Scheible