On Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 22:19:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
One thing I'd add is that a GC is *required* if you want to have a language that guarantees memory safety
Pardon? shared_ptr anyone? You can totally have a language that only provides new/delete facilities and which only access to memory through managed pointers like shared_ptr... without a GC. I don't see where a GC is "required" as you say.
