Space leaks are still possible in a managed language ... if your garbage collector doesn't delete objects that have a chain of circular references. That can be

Space leaks are still possible in a managed language ... if your garbage collector doesn't delete objects that have a chain of circular references. That can be rephrased as "Space leaks are still possible in a managed language ... if your garbage collector is dysfunctional in a way that modern ones aren't". I don't see the relevance.