Adding Java and C++ to the MQTT benchmarks or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Garbage Collector

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 08.01.2014 20:15, schrieb H. S. Teoh:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 11:35:19AM +0000, Atila Neves wrote:
>> http://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/adding-java-and-c-to-the-mqtt-benchmarks-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-garbage-collector/
>

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Thanks very much for sharing your experience.

As I shared a few times here, it was Oberon which opened my eyes
to GC enabled systems programming languages, around 1996, maybe.

After that I was curious to learn about the other descendants of
Oberon and Modula-3. Sadly none of them got an uptake outside ETHZ
and Olivetti, except maybe for Modula-3's influence to C#.

While researching for my Oberon article, I have discovered the Cedar
programming language, developed at Xerox PARC as part of their Mesa
system.

A strong typed systems programming language with GC, as well as manual
memory management, modules and functional programming features done in
1981.

My initial though was, how would today's systems look like if Xerox had
better connections to the outside world instead of AT&T.

--
Paulo