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It was Java which took non-manual memory management to the mainstream. Lisp takes credit for inventing garbage collection.
by qznc 11y ago
It was Java which took non-manual memory management to the mainstream. Lisp takes credit for inventing garbage collection.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoVisual Basic was pretty mainstream before Java. As I recall, it had something along the lines of reference counting for memory management.
- pjmlp 11y agoBasic dialects and Clipper, just to cite two examples with reference counting. Smalltalk was also becoming mainstream before Java entered into the picture.