I'd make your same observation. Like the parent, I'm proud of my imperative code and never used to consider memory management a particularly onerous task. I w

I'd make your same observation. Like the parent, I'm proud of my imperative code and never used to consider memory management a particularly onerous task. I was brought up on it y'know, just a part of writing good code. But then I started Lisp in earnest, found GC useful (necessary!) there, and more recently have gone functional with Clojure. Couldn't do without GC now. One of these days perhaps we'll have concurrent collectors a la Azul, running on a specialized core/MMU on some multiprocessor SoC, and GC will fade into the background and nobody will care so much about performance. Hey, I can dream.