> what is the advantage of garbage collection over just reference counting? One day a student came to Moon and said, "I understand how to make a better garbage

> what is the advantage of garbage collection over just reference counting? 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 . . . '" Danny Hillis