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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by coldtea on Friday August 27, 2021 @05:24AM (#28325775)
>Even back in the day when I was writing BASIC programs (a long time ago now) I thought GC was pants, and spent some considerable time trying to avoid it happening.

Could it be that you never shed the bias from your young 80s BASIC experience, despite the world around you changing?

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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by zabzonk on Friday August 27, 2021 @08:39AM (#28327035)
70s actually. And the world hasn't changed - if you want efficient, performant code that manages resources (not just memory) correctly, you don't want GC.
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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by djur on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:27PM (#28329750)
What BASIC were you using in the 70s that had garbage collection?
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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by zabzonk on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:50PM (#28330098)
Among others https://www.wikiwand.com/en/BASIC-PLUS
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Re:Friendship ended with the garbage collector by djur on Saturday August 28, 2021 @02:49PM (#28340456)
Thanks! That's really interesting. There's a lot of material out there about BASIC for early microcomputers but most of what I've read about minis has been more focused on languages that were considered interesting to "hackers" (i.e. Lisp and C).
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