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From: Andrey A Mirtchovski <aam396@mail.usask.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pascal, TeX
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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:22:17 -0600
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<quote>
we should implement this project in VB because (as the name suggests) all
programming languages started off from basic way back when... appleII was
written in basic too!
</quote>

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, 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
>
>