Wrong and somewhat rude statement in your docs.

[Hemanth Kapila]

That TeX does not allocate dynamically does not mean it does not *need* it.
Don Knuth implemented his own *beep* garbage collection algorithm in TeX.
Good luck for any one trying to do so in *ANY* non trivial program.

Please, try reformulating, maybe by using "most" instead of "any". It would
> be really
> polite to do so.
>

And I wonder how polite is it to nitpick about a harmless expression and
trying to lecture the creator of a programming language on how how to write
the documentation.



On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "Elias Salomão Helou Neto" <elias at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:i3i41m$l11$1 at digitalmars.com...
> > [Sorry for cross-posting, but I've just noticed that the other forum is
> > deprecated.]
> >
> > Please modify your documentation, because the following part of it is
> even
> > offensive. At least from my viewpoint.
> >
> > Your page http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/memory.html states that (my
> > emphasis):
> >
> > "_Any_ non-trivial program needs to allocate and free memory."
> >
> > Have you ever heard of TeX? Is it a trivial program? Does it allocate
> > memory dynamically? Dude, such kind of affirmation makes me jump out of
> my
> > chair. Please, try
> > reformulating, maybe by using "most" instead of "any". It would be really
> > polite to do so.
> >
>
> Words like "any/all/never/none/always" are rarely meant 100% literally.
>
>
>
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