A betterC base

[Timon Gehr]

On 08.02.2018 16:55, JN wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 14:54:19 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> Garbage collection has proved to be a smashing success in the 
>> industry, providing productivity and memory-safety to programmers of 
>> all skill levels.
> 
> Citation needed on how garbage collection has been a smashing success 
> based on its merits rather than the merits of the languages that use 
> garbage collection. Python was also a smashing success, but it doesn't 
> use a garbage collector in it's default implementation (CPython). Unless 
> you mean garbage collection as in "not manual memory management"? ...
> 

Even if "garbage collection" is taken to mean "collecting garbage", 
reference counting is garbage collection. Referring to RC as not GC 
makes no sense at all and was probably only invented because some people 
want to think that RC is good but GC is bad, being too lazy to say 
"tracing GC".