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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