manual memory management

[Mehrdad]

On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 18:46:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> GC is a necessary requirement for memory safety, but not 
> sufficient.


Walter, would you mind explaining WHY it's "necessary"?


I just spent so many comments explaining why NO form of automatic 
memory management is required for guaranteeing memory safety () 
and then you reply and say "GC is a necessary requirement" and 
leave it at that.

See my comment here regarding handles, etc.:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/mailman.232.1357570887.22503.digitalmars-d@puremagic.com?page=7#post-jimseaovuxmribkqbict:40forum.dlang.org