I know it has limitations and downsides but I have to respectfully disagree it's the worst programming idea ever. For the stuff I do which is high level applications I don't believe it's going to affect me badly; If i were writing codecs or an operating system then i would find it hard to justify - however, removing a class of errors from my code should speed up my development and be worth it.
bd On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 14:48 +0100, Adriaan van Os wrote: > ritchie turner wrote: > > I'm new to fpc and pascal, i.e. I've never done a project in it, but > > i've been following the lists for a while and dabbling. > > > > I like using a garbage collector and I know you can replace the memory > > manager in fpc so i guess it's probably trivial to replace the standard > > with boehm. Wondered if anyone's done it and how they got on, and if > > there are issues with the idea. > > The main issue is that garbage collection is the worst programming idea ever. > It lets you get away with bad program design at the cost of slow execution. > > Regards, > > Adriaan van Os > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
