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Comment by ingenter

> Your prelude and the followup question is not well-formed.

Thank you for your feedback, I appreciate it.

> C++ programmers do not have a bias against GC as a specific problem-solving technique. Expert C++ programmers can embrace GC

Please watch this portion of the video, and the way the speaker is pronouncing the word "collect":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfmTagWcqoE#t=1h5m25s

Regarding general-purpose GC:

I don't support using GC for everything. If there is a problem that can only be solved with GC, it doesn't mean that we should express our entire running programs in terms of dynamic cyclic graphs. I believe we can do much better, with much fewer resources.

parent ingenter 10 years ago

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