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From: smryan@netcom.com (!@?*$%)
Subject: Re: Lisp is not an interpreted language
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> Bullshit.  You've never actually *looked* at the Boehm/Demers GC, have
> you?  Or at Great Circle?  Both are general garbage collectors, and both
> will point you to memory leaks you're not otherwise handling.  If they
> don't handle everything, they handle more than enough.
> 
> Geez, *look* at the stuff before you make silly comments.


Fantastic! They finally solved that halting problem! This is great news!


(Rememberring, of course, that C and C++, unlike Lisp, permit arbitrary
transformations on pointer values which a collector can apparently, always
transform back into a valid pointer.)

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