It is my understanding that there is no automatic garbage collection in J. Is this assertion correct?
I ask because it came to mind as I read "Good Ideas, Through the Looking Glass" by Niklaus Wirth. In it he writes of functional programming languages that 'a garbage collector is the necessary ingredient. An implementation without automatic garbage collection is unthinkable.' Notice that said article was published Jan. 2006! (IEEE Computer) http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/Articles/GoodIdeas_origFig.pdf -- Perhaps the most important habit in the development of good style in a language [is] the habit of critical reading. Kenneth E. Iverson ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
