From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24713 invoked by alias); 1 Sep 2002 13:27:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 24706 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2002 13:27:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO khms.westfalen.de) (62.153.201.243) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Sep 2002 13:27:03 -0000 Received: from root by khms.westfalen.de with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 17lUkm-0008Gc-00 (Debian); Sun, 01 Sep 2002 15:27:00 +0200 Received: by khms.westfalen.de (CrossPoint v3.12d.kh10 R/C435); 01 Sep 2002 15:22:55 +0200 Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2002 06:27:00 -0000 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Message-ID: <8W2iMLt1w-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <20020831115757.62F37F2D75@nile.gnat.com> Subject: Re: Garbage Collection MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? References: <20020831115757.62F37F2D75@nile.gnat.com> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote on 31.08.02 in <20020831115757.62F37F2D75@nile.gnat.com>: > <<1. Their garbage collection guy worked on GC for 8 years straight, full > time. Getting it right is tough. > >> > > One useful source of information here is all the published work on Algol-68 > which was the first general purpose language to require garbage collection. Surely Lisp is a general purpose language *much* older than Algol 68? MfG Kai