manual memory management

[Mehrdad]

On Tuesday, 8 January 2013 at 22:19:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> One thing I'd add is that a GC is *required* if you want to 
> have a language that guarantees memory safety



Pardon?  shared_ptr anyone? You can totally have a language that 
only provides new/delete facilities and which only access to 
memory through managed pointers like shared_ptr... without a GC. 
I don't see where a GC is "required" as you say.