> From the days of V7 Unix onward (if not earlier), a substantial amount of Unix programming has always been done in languages with automatic memory management.

> From the days of V7 Unix onward (if not earlier), a substantial amount of Unix programming has always been done in languages with automatic memory management. It's just that we called this programming "shell scripts", "awk", "make", and so on I remember correctly, in the early days, it was frowned upon to program in c if the same could be done using shell scripts and awk, sed and friends. But these are the days of multi-gig applications a no one cares about using UN*X as originally designed.