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From: shang@corp.mot.com (David L. Shang)
Subject: Re: # ANNOUNCEMENT #: The Developer - A New Object-Oriented Language And IDE
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 16:32:42 GMT
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In article <4sac4r$a0t@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus  
Henderson) writes:
> >In <31E1577E.58EA@ix.netcom.com>, Giuliano Carlini <giuliano@ix.netcom.com>  
> >writes:
> >> No, it's nonsense ... 

> The paragraph quoted above was written by me, not by Giuliano Carlini.
> 

I apologize for the wrong reference.

> >Don't you think those non-OOP or hybrid languages with GC without any
> >problem?
> 
> I don't understand your question.
> 
> >When one thing dominate the whole system while it is not
> >sufficient to cover all the requirements, there will be a problem.
> >GC is such a case. Note that Java has an effective GC.
> 
> I don't understand what you are getting at here.
>

What I am trying to say is that: when object references in general
(including smart references) are not hybrid, the debate of GC should
go away.

For detail, refer to my article: Access to Objects:

    http://www.sigs.com/publications/docs/oc/9605/oc9605.c.shang.html

David Shang


