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From: scotth@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Scott Henninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sw.components
Subject: Re: Reasons for low reuse
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Date: 15 Sep 89 17:09:45 GMT
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|>From: hopper@ntmtv.UUCP (Ian Hopper)
|
|I have always felt that some form of Garbage Collection is
|needed in order to do a decent job on reusable "Collection"
|modules.  Since the current favorite language (C++) does
|not consistiently (or easily) support GC, we do not see
|good quality collection modules.

Quality in what sense? Program efficiency? Cognitive efficiency (i.e. how
readable it is)? Correctness? Reliability?




-- Scott
   scotth@boulder.colorado.edu