Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Nightfox
From : Dr. What
Date : Tue Jan 09 2024 08:03 am

-=> Nightfox wrote to tenser <=-

 Ni> reference the memory, etc.).  I've even seen some C++ developers say
 Ni> they don't have to write a 'delete' statement anymore.

ESR did a post a number of years ago when working on Reposurgeon along this
line.

The tl;dr; was that program complexity has risen to a level where we **MUST**
use languages that handle their own garbage collection.

The old saying "Any non-trivial programs contains at least 1 bug" can probably
now be said to be "Any program written in a language that doesn't do garbage
collection contains at least 1 memory leak."


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