D is crap
Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jul 10 02:04:25 PDT 2016
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 06:19:28 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 02:02:23 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
> wrote:
>> Reference counting is a technique for collecting garbage, but
>> the term «garbage collection» is typically used for techniques
>> that catch cycles by tracing down chains of pointers:
>
> i don't care about hipsters redefining the terms for arbitrary
> reasons. refcounting IS GC.
Nothing to do with hipsters. The common interpretation for
«garbage collection» in informal context has always been a
tracing collector. I've never heard anything else in any informal
CS context.
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