/prog/ - GC is shit

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 9:18

discuss

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 9:19

One word: dynamic typing.
Thread over!

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 9:29

Trolls these days charge 2 beets. Discuss.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 10:35

This thread should be collected by GC.

But it won't since all implementations of GC are shit.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 10:37

Just came here to say that GC is shit and C++ is the best.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 12:13

ONE WORD FORCED COLLECTION OF GARBAGE THREAD OVER

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 12:34

>>4
Like collects like!

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 12:56

It sure is!

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 14:54

Garbage Collection is overly weak and complicated and were conceived in a time when computation was not yet mainstream or accessible.

Manual memory management like malloc and free is a much better attempt at trying to solve the problems Garbage Collectors first ``set'' out to solve.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 15:27

^{I CAN'T TELL WHICH SIDE IS THE TROLL IN THIS DEBATE}

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 15:32

>>10
I can't tell trolls from genuine poster here anymore. Poe's Law applies to the whole board, now.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 16:51

The problem I have with proponents of GC is that they take a very militant stance against manual memory management: as if manual memory management, programming languages which feature manual memory management, and programmers who use such languages must be eradicated from the face of the Earth, as if they were some kind of disease.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 16:56

>>9
kill yourself faggot

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 17:33

>>13
You don't belong here. Quit now before all references to you disappear and you become garbage, insolent construction!

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 18:26

>>14
you do that, lithpfag

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 18:33

>>15
You're so silly that you don't even realize that the one you're replying to probably is a C fan. Instead you recognize patterns of ``awesomeness'' that some Lispers excude (but not exclusively), and thus call everyone who you feel is superior to you names. Oh, such primitive monkey-like social behavior.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 19:15

>>16
Aaaaand yhbt. I didn't even expect it to be so easy, but there it is, seven words is all it took.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 19:35

This thread is [b][i][u]ENTERPRISE[/b][/i][/u] quality!

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 19:53

>>17
Joke's on you, I was only pretending to be retarded!

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 22:00

manual memory management is stupid.
garbage collection is stupid.
non-cyclical semantics with reference counting and no side effects is the master race.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 22:58

>>22
Nice dubz.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 22:58

check 'em

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 22:59

check 'em

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-07 23:00

>>23
YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 6:22

>>19
No, you really are retarded.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 6:32

Actually, the right thing is an hybrid between malloc:free, reference counting, and garbage collection, using one only when the previous becomes too complex.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 8:24

>>26
reference counting
No.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 9:03

>>24
Nevertheless, the mission was accomplished: a shitthread was used for its only worthy purpose, dubz mining, even if it wasn't by me.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 9:16

>>28
What makes this shit thread?

Certainly better than your average /prog/ thread (ok that does not make it non-shit).

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 9:20

>>27
In some rare cases, reference counting is the best way.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 9:40

>>29
There were like two posts which namedropped some tech jargon without making any arguments, and the rest was just either unadultered or meta-shitpostery, just like the rest of /prog/.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 9:50

>>30
In some rare cases, GC is the best way.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 9:54

Can disable GC in lisp/scheme/haskell just for block of code?

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 10:07

>>33
You can in D.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 10:12

>>34
>>33 can. But can I?

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 10:37

>>35
As far as i can tell /prog/ never required expert english knowlege

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 12:22

>>36
Using the `one' pronoun instead of `you' when referring to a lambda person isn't what I would call expert-level English knowledge.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 13:29

>>32
In some rare cases, manual memory management is thSegmentation fault.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 14:04

>>38
You are incompetent programmer if your manual memory management causes segmentation fault.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-08 14:07

>>39 is right. The only way a competent programmer can cause segmentation fault is with off-by-one errors and such.

GC is shit

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