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JWZ also states "Java and Emacs are really bad examples of GC-oriented environments." in that same article. And later, in 2000, he states "Today, I program in
by qdog 15y ago
JWZ also states "Java and Emacs are really bad examples of GC-oriented environments." in that same article.
And later, in 2000, he states "Today, I program in C." http://www.jwz.org/doc/java.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/java.html
JWZ is an entertaining read, but unless he's updated in a post somewhere in the last 11 years, it isn't clear to me where he comes down on C at the moment.
Btw, I program in C.
- derleth 15y ago> it isn't clear to me where he comes down on C at the moment At the moment, his main focus seems to be his bar, so perhaps he isn't the best person to ask about the relative merits of C versus modern garbage-collected runtimes. Not really the point, though: The point is that blanket statements about the inefficiency of gc amount to superstition, and should not just be let stand.
- mzl 15y agoFrom the "Coders at Work" interview in 2009, JWZ says that he mostly writes Perl scripts for small one-off tasks, and every now and then a new screen-saver in C.