manual memory management

[Mehrdad]

On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 08:14:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/8/2013 11:42 PM, Mehrdad wrote:
>> (True, it wouldn't give you the power of a systems language, 
>> but that's quite
>> obviouly not my point -- the point is that it's a _perfectly 
>> possible_
>> memory-safe language which we made, so I don't understand 
>> Walter's comment about
>> a GC being "required" for a memory-safe language.)
>
>
> The misunderstanding is you are not considering reference 
> counting as a form of GC. It is.

So you would say that C++ code (which uses reference counting) 
uses garbage collection?