Garbage Collection

I'm a programming newfag, and I was wondering if anyone can explain to me what garbage collection is and which languages are doinitrite or not.

Anyone?

First of all, this is not /b/, so no newfag-ging.
Secondly, LISP is doing it, uhm, ``rite'', because it's simple in LISP and you can't screw it up.
Thirdly, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)

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>>1
Why didn't you just Google it?

>>3
You produce enough trash to fill more than one dumpster in a day?

>>5
Dude, America.

>>2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_%28computer_science%29

Garbage collection is what toy languages use to manage memory.
Basically its a program which watches on your program and decides which unused objects gets deleted from memory.

>>8
this is what voiden frost actually believes

>>1
You're probably going to get trolled pretty hard, just to let you know. Nerds have been debating about garbage collection since before you were ever born (as indicated by your use of the term "newfag").

I'm not going to go over what garbage collection is because it's trivial to find out information regarding that.

However, no language has a perfect solution. Unless you don't consider performance cost to be a factor, in which case, any sufficiently high level language (any of the Lisp variants, .NET-based languages, etc.) have a very effective garbage collection scheme.

performance cost
That is a dead parrot.

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>>11
Hence, "unless you don't consider performance cost to be a factor."

I also noticed that my grammar was hurting.

Fixed:
Unless you don't consider performance cost to be a factor, in which case, any sufficiently high level language (any of the Lisp variants, .NET-based languages, etc.) has a very effective garbage collection scheme.

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>>8
Garbage collection is what toy languages use to manage memory.
IHBT, so I won't respond angrily.
Basically its a program which watches on your program and decides which unused objects gets deleted from memory.
It can be that, but most of the time it just waites until the heap size is exceeded and then it frees whatever is freeable.