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>Why do people keep thinking they can use a garbage-collected language for “systems programming”? Why do you think it can't be done? It was already used for s
by flavio81 9y ago
>Why do people keep thinking they can use a garbage-collected language for “systems programming”?
Why do you think it can't be done?
It was already used for systems-programming in the early 80s; whole machines were programmed in Lisp in low level: TI Explorer, Xerox workstations and others.
- rfreytag 9y agoI distinctly remember waiting quite a long while with my Symbolics locked up while it completed a GC.
- flavio81 9y agoCan't help but recall this quote: "Bad response time doesn't bother the Real Programmer -- it gives him a chance to catch a little sleep between compiles. " -- from "Real Programmers Don't use Pascal" http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers
- TeMPOraL 9y agoGCs are better these days. And you're much more likely to wait on IO anyway, at every granularity level in the system.
- cat199 9y agoI distinctly remember waiting quite a long while with my PC locked up while it completed a Win32 load.