Garbage Collector?

[Moritz Maxeiner via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 29 April 2017 at 07:26:45 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 28.04.2017 23:52, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 09:50:49PM +0000, Atila Neves via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 19:41:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Friday, 28 April 2017 at 19:41:15 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
>>>> Grøstad wrote:
>>>> «Back in the old DOS days, there were multiple pointer types 
>>>> (near
>>>> and far). Programmers put up with that because it was the 
>>>> only way,
>>>> but they HATED HATED HATED it.»
>>>
>>> It's true, we did. It was awful.
>> [...]
>>
>> I remember working with that.  It was a royal PITA.
>>
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>> T
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>
> I don't doubt that, but the implicit generalization is 
> "multiple pointer types are necessarily always a royal PITA".

The "implicit generalization" is your interpretation, though.