Language progress? [partially OT]

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:

> bearophile wrote:
> > A question: Here for example the cheapest C program uses 452 KB of RAM. On
> > average in the Shootout benchmarks Free Pascal uses less or quite less RAM
> > than the D programs. Do you know why the Free Pascal programs use so little
> > RAM?
> 
> Pascal doesn't use GC.

Sorry, I meant C there! My mistake!

Bye,
bearophile