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Re:Project Oberon by vezzy-fnord on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @05:33PM (#9848254)
Programming language with automatic memory management. Look up "garbage collection" for all the details in the world.

The reason I brought it up is because it's a common trope that you can't do low-level programming with GC, and systems like Oberon are direct evidence to the contrary.

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Re:Project Oberon by nickpsecurity on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @10:29PM (#9849443)
Exactly. I see the question on Stack Overflow all the time and just keep dropping a whole list of counterexamples. Too many myths in IT that hold mainstream back.
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