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Re:Baby's First Garbage Collector by wsc981 on Sunday December 08, 2013 @05:36PM (#6871782)
> "I don't know of any language that has pointers and a GC. Are there any?"

Objective-C used to have a garbage collector, though (at least with regards to iOS) Apple removed this capability with the introduction or ARC. On the following URL is some discussion on the Objective-C garbage collector: http://cocoasamurai.blogspot.nl/2010/12/objective-c-memory-m...

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Re:Baby's First Garbage Collector by masklinn on Monday December 09, 2013 @04:33AM (#6873531)
iOS never got the GC, only the desktop version got it, and afaik it was deprecated rather than removed entirely.
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Re:Baby's First Garbage Collector by pornel on Monday December 09, 2013 @05:36AM (#6873690)
It's been removed entirely in Xcode 5.1.
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