Re: IBMi25 -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: IBMi25
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 16:34:52 -0400
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On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Objects in a garbage collection system don't
contain a reference count.

They can. Reference counting is one possible garbage collection
scheme, and it's the primary one used by the official implementation
of Python, as well as PHP, Microsoft's COM objects, and some others.
(Not that this has much bearing on whether a language is suitable or
not for ILE.)

John

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