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From: D De Villiers <~ddevilliers99@lando.co.za>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 17:37:15 +0000
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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.

Regards,

Lennie De Villiers

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> i suspect that's because the Pascal language took the novel approach of
providing
> neither guaranteed garbage collection nor a portable operator to free
> memory without it.  there were several platform-specific methods,
including
> stack like heap allocation (which i think was used by one compiler).
`dispose'
> ended up in the standard (but did not preclude implementing garbage
collection).