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Re:How can C Programs be so Reliable? (2008) by stinkypete on Thursday December 05, 2013 @03:52PM (#6857136)
/x?fnid=KxPuWC6qnkl4nxcUTDh4xs resolves to "unknown or expired link". Do you have a full URL?
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Re:How can C Programs be so Reliable? (2008) by zb on Thursday December 05, 2013 @03:56PM (#6857156)
It got garbage-collected. That's the point.
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Re:How can C Programs be so Reliable? (2008) by stinkypete on Thursday December 05, 2013 @04:04PM (#6857219)
Gotcha. The parent comment made it seem like that was a link to information about retrospectively adding GC to other languages, especially given that Lisp already has GC as nearly an assumption at the language level. But I can see what he was trying to get at.
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Re:How can C Programs be so Reliable? (2008) by elwell on Thursday December 05, 2013 @05:10PM (#6857688)
haha, exactly
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