On Mon Oct 10 09:52:36 EDT 2011, ph.soft...@gmail.com wrote: > It's not necessary that you're feeding a troll, in my opinion. > I actually agree with the idea that C is enough. > I don't understand why you need garbage collection ... why do you need > to have garbage in the first place? > Just because time goes by does not mean everything should keep on > changing you know. > People have to understand that certain technologies can just stay as > they are, if they work well.
"need" is such a funny word. we don't need keyboards, we can just use toggles. there have been a few other trivial improvments in the day-to-day lives of programmers like bitmap displays, which real computer scientists can ignore. so as time goes on, it's easy for programmers to get a whiggish view of the world. but you're equally correct, that the mere passage of time between x and y is not an argument that either is better. so we're left only to argue this one on the merits of garbage collection. :-) now that i think of it, garbage collection was invented more than a decade before c. so the preceeding two paragraphs have been argued in the moot court. in any event, i think one can consider manual memory management to often be akin to manually managing registerization. there is a good chance that in most cases that an automatic and systematic process can do a better job than an ad hoc one. yet, i program in c most of the time. i don't know of many operating systems written in a automaticly gc'd language. - erik
