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From: root@yale.UUCP (Root Of All Evil)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: libpw.a
Summary: Garbage collection doesn't belong in C
Keywords: alloca
Message-ID: <57897@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 89 14:47:06 GMT
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Reply-To: berryman-harry@CS.YALE.EDU (Harry Berryman)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT  06520-2158
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In article <15945@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II) writes:
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>.....  I always enjoyed SNOBOL and LISP programming
>because you use the stuff, then toss it, then use it again.  In C
>and others, memory management is a CHORE.

C is not a language to do string processing in. C is designed to 
be efficient for SYSTEMS programming. Do we really want
garbage collection in the language used for the kernal of the operating 
system? Sounds pretty silly to me. If you want to program in Lisp, program
in Lisp. Don't expect C to provide you with a Lisp environment.

                  -Scott Berryman 
                   berryman@CS.YALE.EDU