> "I don't know of any language that has pointers and a GC. Are there any?" Objective-C used to have a garbage collector, though (at least with regards to iOS)

> "I don't know of any language that has pointers and a GC. Are there any?" Objective-C used to have a garbage collector, though (at least with regards to iOS) Apple removed this capability with the introduction or ARC. On the following URL is some discussion on the Objective-C garbage collector: http://cocoasamurai.blogspot.nl/2010/12/objective-c-memory-management-garbage.html http://cocoasamurai.blogspot.nl/2010/12/objective-c-memory-m...