manual memory management

[Walter Bright]

On 1/8/2013 11:42 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
> (True, it wouldn't give you the power of a systems language, but that's quite
> obviouly not my point -- the point is that it's a _perfectly possible_
> memory-safe language which we made, so I don't understand Walter's comment about
> a GC being "required" for a memory-safe language.)


The misunderstanding is you are not considering reference counting as a form of 
GC. It is.