Garbage collection helps programmers the way training wheels help cyclists. The analogy is pretty much exact.
@firstdrafthell @samskivert But that's the thing - it's not a tradeoff. It's pretty free to just do it right and not use GC.
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@firstdrafthell@samskivert So the only tradeoff that I've seen is "coder doesn't want to learn how to do memory management" or something? -
@firstdrafthell@samskivert Which isn't a _code_ tradeoff, it's a practice tradeoff, which is not what "tradeoff" is supposed to mean :( - Show replies
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@cmuratori@samskivert That's sounds a lot like dogma...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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