Why does D rely on a GC?

Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Aug 19 12:39:46 PDT 2014


On 08/19/2014 09:07 PM, Philippe Sigaud via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I remember finding this while exploring Haskell, some years ago:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Zygohistomorphic_prepromorphisms
>
> And thinking: Ah, I get it, it's a joke: they know they are considered
> a bunch of strangely mathematically-influenced developers, but they
> have a sense of humor and know how to be tongue-in-cheek and have
> gentle fun at themselves. (My strange free association was: Zygo =>
> zygomatics muscle => smile & laughter => joke).
>
> That actually got me interested in Haskell:)
> But, apparently, I was all wrong;-)

Well, not /all/ wrong. 
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6ml1y/a_pretty_useful_haskell_snippet/c04ako5 
:-)

> It got me reading entire books on
> category theory and type theory, though.

That's a lot of fun in any case. =)


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