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Interestingly, they actually wanted a garbage collector: "The language had to address most of the problems with C. Ideally this meant something with good strin
by rlpb 14y ago
Interestingly, they actually wanted a garbage collector:
"The language had to address most of the problems with C.
Ideally this meant something with good string handling, garbage collection, exceptions, and that was object oriented."
- eropple 14y agoYeah, I saw that, and my WTF sensor lit up. DNS isn't trivial, but it seems like a sufficiently well-explored problem that memory lifecycles should be pretty well-understood.