Re: Some Laws

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.

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