Re: the advantages of garbage collection -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: the advantages of garbage collection
From: "Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:25:34 -0400
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:59 PM, David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Christen, Duane J. wrote:

I'm trying to understand Steve's reasoning on why RPG is bad because it doesn't have GC.

Same here. :)

never said it. ( at least publicly! ) Last week it was asked if RPG
was a dead language. Without objects and a GC, RPG simply cant be
improved beyond what it is now. As demonstrated by MSFT, there are
plenty of ways to improve languages.

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Re: the advantages of garbage collection , David Gibbs
Re: the advantages of garbage collection , Tommy . Holden

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