gclist-digest V1 #19 (Re: [gclist] More questions for the FAQ)

Bill Bill GuillermoJ.Rozas
Mon, 25 Mar 1996 08:59:11 -0800


|   Sender: majordom@iecc.com (MajorDomo)
|   Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 09:38:08 +0100 (MET)
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|   > > Q: What languages include/require/provide-by-default garbage collection?
|   > 
|   > Don't forget Algol 68, which is, I believe, the first and still almost the only 
|   > general purpose procedural language to *require* garbage collection (there is
|   > *no* free).
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|   Isn't Simula even older ?

There is no free in Lisp, and it dates from '58 or so.