From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20011217084103.00982c98@pop3.clear.net.nz> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Andrew Simmons Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX In-Reply-To: <20011214180352.41A3319A19@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:41:03 +1300 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 378af8d6-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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.