Different definitions of memory leak. In the post's definition, a memory leak is memory you can no longer reach but is still allocated. That's eliminated by Ja

Different definitions of memory leak. In the post's definition, a memory leak is memory you can no longer reach but is still allocated. That's eliminated by Java and Python. Of course, you can still waste memory in Java or Python in a variety of ways. But that's a different definition of memory leak then the post is using.