manual memory management

[Mehrdad]

On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 07:14:19 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 07:06:03 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 06:57:34 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 06:56:00 UTC, Mehrdad wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Such a program is guaranteed to have memory leak, unless you 
>>> add a GC on top of the managed pointers.
>>
>> Oh and you should also take a look at Newlisp
>
> I certainly wont if you don't even bother explain why I should.

'cause it's memory-safe LISP and without a GC?