On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Hellwig Geisse wrote:
The type of software I had in mind was an interactive system, running for days (or even months) without restarting, together with the possibility of creating function closures. I find it hard to imagine how you can do that without a garbage collector.
I write (astronomical) instrument control software in C that runs for days (upto weeks). I call malloc() when I need memory and free() when the particular sub-task is done ... no problem. Christoph _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/