Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:25:59 GMT
Message-ID: <bIj0d.168135$mD.142465@attbi_s02>

"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:CLWdndUwpY_kKNzcRVn-oA_at_comcast.com...

> You are right. The consistent problem I've had with OO philosophy is that
> they think concepts don't exist until they are "invented" within the OO
> paradigm. For, example, Java "invented" automatic garbage collection, a
> mere 40 years after McCarthy invented the same thing.

I've never heard any authority on Java claim that Java was the first garbage collected language. Do you have a citation?

If some 19 year old gets all in love with Java and says that, it signifies nothing. I'm sure he also thinks Linus Torvalds invented the idea of a Unix kernel, and Madonna was the first ever sex symbol. Guy Steele was a big name early on in Java; I'd bet he doesn't think Java invented garbage collection.

Marshall Received on Fri Sep 10 2004 - 10:25:59 CDT