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> Java was the first mainstream language with automatic memory management and garbage collection Wouldn't this be Lisp?
by fishmaster 6y ago
> Java was the first mainstream language with automatic memory management and garbage collection
Wouldn't this be Lisp?
- kazinator 6y agoNo, no. Mainstream is actually a stream in Scotland, pronounced a lot like "mine stream", and also the name of the surrounding region and a village therein. The programmers living in Mainstream are True Scotsmen, and the first garbage collected language that these True Scotsman Mainstream programmers used was in fact Java.