I don't think it's about the amount or the language. I have 16 GB of memory, and I don't expect it to decrease. I don't expect the number of cores and MHz to go

I don't think it's about the amount or the language. I have 16 GB of memory, and I don't expect it to decrease. I don't expect the number of cores and MHz to go down either. I'm just saying that everything should be written to take what you give it and like it. If you do that, it doesn't matter how much memory there is, or if there is a GC or not - you have none of the problems of unpredictable resource usage. I don't think (although I haven't been in school over a decade) most people come out of college with an experience of writing small programs to process everything in chunks. It's so...impure. I didn't have the experience of being taught in Scheme or something, but I can imagine.