From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX Message-ID: <20011214194334.C10154@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <20011214180352.41A3319A19@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20011214180352.41A3319A19@mail.cse.psu.edu>; from rob pike on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:03:50PM -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:43:34 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 376887b0-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:03:50PM -0500, rob pike wrote: > > > According to my knowledge - Java was the first language that implemented > > garbage collection... > > Wrong. Young people don't know any history. The first language with > garbage collection was Visual Basic. > Rob, this isn't alt.folklore.urban, you _are_ allowed to use smileys. ++L