His point is wrong, then. Does he think that in the 70's there weren't COBOL programmers hacking out yet another set of flat-file database systems? So garbage

His point is wrong, then. Does he think that in the 70's there weren't COBOL programmers hacking out yet another set of flat-file database systems? So garbage collection is a solved issue - thank God - it just seems like he's quitting his job as patent clerk because everything's been invented already. And that's just not close to true. It's never true.