In message <7x7hzbv14a....@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, wrote: > Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> writes: > >> > Reference counting is an implementation detail used by CPython but not >> > [implementations built on runtimes designed for corporate-herd-oriented >> > languages, like] IronPython or Jython. >> >> I rest my case. > > You're really being pretty ignorant. I don't know of any serious Lisp > system that uses reference counting, both for performance reasons and > to make sure cyclic structures are reclaimed properly.
Both of which, oddly enough, more modern dynamic languages like Python manage perfectly well. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
