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Re: Why IDL needs Garbage Collection [message #44913 is a reply to message #44891]

Thu, 21 July 2005 11:40

Dick Jackson
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"JD Smith" <jdsmith@as.arizona.edu> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.07.20.21.24.42.658685@as.arizona.edu...
>
> IDL pointers are great. [...]
>
> This is why RSI needs to implement a simple but effective garbage
> collection paradigm in the next version of IDL. Anyone agree?

(Just to clarify, the issue here is "Why IDL needs *Automatic* Garbage
Collection", as we do have manual Heap_GC as you point out)

Absolutely. I did a lot of work using LISP some years ago, and I recall how
often I could breeze through some programming tasks without having to worry
about the cleanup. It makes for more carefree (not careless!) work.

I'm with you on this, JD.

For anyone who wants to read a nice article on the issue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_%28computer_ science%29

Cheers,
--
-Dick

Dick Jackson / dick@d-jackson.com
D-Jackson Software Consulting / http://www.d-jackson.com
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		Re: Why IDL needs Garbage Collection By: Michael Wallace on Mon, 25 July 2005 07:15
		Re: Why IDL needs Garbage Collection By: marc schellens[1] on Mon, 25 July 2005 03:35
		Re: Why IDL needs Garbage Collection By: Dick Jackson on Thu, 21 July 2005 11:40
		Re: Why IDL needs Garbage Collection By: JD Smith on Thu, 21 July 2005 10:05
		Re: Why IDL needs Garbage Collection By: Antonio Santiago on Wed, 20 July 2005 23:29
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