From: Andrew Simmons <andrew@mbmnz.co.nz>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:41:03 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20011217084103.00982c98@pop3.clear.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011214180352.41A3319A19@mail.cse.psu.edu>
> The first language with garbage collection was Visual Basic.
>
This still isn't quite correct. The first language with garbage collection
was Algol 68. Unfortunately, the authors of the Algol 68 revised report
referred to the process of garbage collection as "Meekly deproceduring to
MOID FORM", and nobody knew what they were talking about until Bill Gates
figured it out and told his programmers how to implement it in Visual
Basic. Bill of course went on to invent this new Internet thing everyone's
talking about.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-16 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-14 18:03 rob pike
2001-12-14 17:43 ` Lucio De Re
2001-12-14 18:09 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-12-14 18:22 ` Andrey A Mirtchovski
2001-12-16 19:41 ` Andrew Simmons [this message]
2001-12-17 10:16 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-17 10:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-17 10:16 ` Wladimir Mutel
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-18 0:37 okamoto
2001-12-17 8:29 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2001-12-14 17:59 bwc
2001-12-14 17:40 forsyth
2001-12-17 10:15 ` Ralph Corderoy
2001-12-14 1:42 geoff
2001-12-13 19:02 forsyth
2001-12-14 10:14 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-14 17:37 ` D De Villiers
2001-12-17 10:14 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-13 17:38 erik quanstrom
2001-12-13 17:51 ` Howard Trickey
2001-12-14 10:15 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-12-13 17:56 ` George Michaelson
2001-12-13 18:02 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-13 18:09 ` George Michaelson
2001-12-13 18:11 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-12-13 18:18 ` George Michaelson
2001-12-13 18:21 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-14 7:19 ` paurea
2001-12-14 8:07 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-12-14 17:04 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-13 18:55 ` Martin Harriss
2001-12-13 21:20 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-12-14 10:15 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-12-18 9:47 ` Chet Ramey
2001-12-14 0:39 ` Dan Cross
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