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Moon used to be famous among hackers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Moon ("One day a student came to Moon a
by gwern 6y ago
Moon used to be famous among hackers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Moon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Moon ("One day a student came to Moon and said: “I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons.” Moon patiently told the student the following story: “One day a student came to Moon and said: ‘I understand how to make a better garbage collector...")