>Did Algol in general have memory leaks?,or is just C and Windows.

This is very much from recollection of programming in Algol 60 & 68, 40+ years 
ago.

Algol60 did not have heap storage or pointers IIRC  Therefore no potential for 
memory leaks

Algol68R had fairly agressive garbage collection, which generally precluded 
memory leaks, in a language with dynamic arrays, ref ref ref pointers, etc.

Also, the small memory model of initially 32 kiW address space - which is all I 
can recollect ever using on an unpaged time sharing machine ICL 1904S with 
(IIRC) 256 kiWd of physical memory - leads to a rather more static programming 
style.

The grandchild of the Algols and this style of programming is perhaps subset 
Ada 

A wag might observe that programmers may have memory leaks, that teams generate 
memory leaks, and that organisations lack corporate memory.

Martin

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