Re: Some Laws

fOn 24 Sep 2004 03:10:19 GMT in comp.databases.theory, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_acm.org> wrote:

>In the last exciting episode, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis_at_SystematicSW.Invalid> wrote:
>> On 23 Sep 2004 15:05:07 -0700 in comp.databases.theory,
>> AaronJSherman_at_gmail.com (Aaron Sherman) wrote:
>>
>>>"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:<ubmdncUAr--WSszcRVn-rg_at_comcast.com>...
>>>
>>>> Yeh. The guy who tried to convince me that Java introduced the automatic
>>>> garbage collector. I think he had never heard of Lisp.
>>
>> Or BASIC!
>
>Except that BASIC's "string collection" system was WAY less
>sophisticated; it traditionally uses something about as sophisticated
>as reference counting.

I was thinking more of the "commercial" heavily extended BASICs on mainframes and minis in the 1970s-80s. OTOH given the interpretive runtime environment, and lack of circular references, they didn't need anything other than reference counting.

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