Re: A re-announce on GC's defects
- From: "Bruce Wood" <brucewood@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 18 Jan 2007 09:55:55 -0800
Born wrote:
GC is really garbage itself
Hey, I have a lot of patience, but I'm sorry... when someone starts a
post with a patently moronic statement like that, well, I conclude that
that person is a moron.
GC is worthless garbage? That must be why Java was a flash in the pan.
Hardly anyone uses Java. As one poster said, "Oh wait."
Not that I consider one study a definitive conclusion, but the one
cited here
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2065392,00.asp
says,
"Java now holds the market penetration lead at 45 percent, followed by
C/C++ at 40 percent, and C# at 32 percent."
(Yes, I realize that the numbers add up to more than 100%... I assume
that that is because some shops, like ours, use more than one
language.)
I'm not game to draw any solid conclusions from these numbers, but a
general conclusion is fair game: for a memory management method that is
"garbage itself" it's doing very well. I don't think it's out of line
to say that more than half of all new software is being written using a
garbage-collected language.
Given this, I think that there are only two possible conclusions that
you can draw:
1. Half of the programmers in the world are benighted idiots who have
not yet attained the lofty heights of intellectual superiority that you
now enjoy. They would be using C++ if only they would realize The
Truth.
2. You're missing something.
Personally, I vote for door #2.
.
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- A re-announce on GC's defects
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