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Re: Promoting Dylan...
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To: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu
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Subject: Re: Promoting Dylan...
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From: "Mark Jordan" <Mark_Jordan@nospam.btinternet.com>
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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 13:45:01 -0400 (EDT)
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Organization: BT Internet
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References: <200109110903.FAA13272@life.ai.mit.edu>
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Xref: traf.lcs.mit.edu comp.lang.dylan:13665
"Rob Myers" <robmyers@mac.com> wrote in message news:200109110903.FAA13272@life.ai.mit.edu...
>The irony, this being C++, is that you haven't. You have the illusory
>empowerment of thinking you've mastered a complex and obfuscated syntax
>and set of libraries until you waste half a day on a non-virtual
>destructor.
>You have namespace pollution, mangled names and the exception/RTTI
>overhead. Dynamic language users know how their GC works and can program
>for it.
I guess you love C++ ;-) I thought most garbage collectors
had a fuction that you could call to immediately collect
an item, but I must be wrong, because I've heard so many
complaints about GC's are non-deterministic, the .NET one for
instance. I guess it's not that simple huh ?
Cheers,
Mark.