From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
From: Fco.J.Ballesteros <nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es>
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Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 09:29:54 +0100
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:  :  According to my knowledge - Java was the first language that implemented
:  :  garbage collection...Neather C/C++ or Pascal (Delphi etc) have garbage
:  :  collection and memory must be manually located/delocated etc.
:  This is what's wrong with CS education today!!

Couldn't agree more!
In fact, my students know pretty well that limbo was the first
language with garbage collection.