Re: How far can stack [LIFO] solve do automatic garbage collection and prevent memory leak ?

2010-08-25 Thread Alex McDonald
On 25 Aug, 01:00, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > On Aug 24, 4:17 pm, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Hugh Aguilar wrote: > > > [SNIP ;] > > > > The real problem here is that C, Forth and C++ lack automatic garbage > > > collection. If I have a program in which I have to worry about memory > > > leaks (as desc

Re: How far can stack [LIFO] solve do automatic garbage collection and prevent memory leak ?

2010-08-24 Thread Alex McDonald
On 24 Aug, 01:00, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > On Aug 21, 12:32 pm, Alex McDonald wrote: > > > "Scintilla" gets about 2,080,000 results on google; "blather" gets > > about 876,000 results. O Hugh, you pseudo-intellectual you! > > > > with gutter l

Re: How far can stack [LIFO] solve do automatic garbage collection and prevent memory leak ?

2010-08-21 Thread Alex McDonald
On 21 Aug, 17:58, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > On Aug 21, 5:29 am, Alex McDonald wrote: > > > On 21 Aug, 06:42, Standish P wrote: > > > Admittedly, I am asking a question that would be thought > > > provoking to those who claim to be "experts" but these experts

Re: How far can stack [LIFO] solve do automatic garbage collection and prevent memory leak ?

2010-08-21 Thread Alex McDonald
On 21 Aug, 06:42, Standish P wrote: > On Aug 20, 3:51 pm, Hugh Aguilar wrote: > > > > > On Aug 18, 6:23 pm, Standish P wrote: > > > > On Aug 17, 6:38 pm, John Passaniti wrote: > > > > > You asked if Forth "borrowed" lists from Lisp.  It did not.  In Lisp, > > > > lists are constructed with pair

Re: How far can stack [LIFO] solve do automatic garbage collection and prevent memory leak ?

2010-08-18 Thread Alex McDonald
On 18 Aug, 11:09, spinoza wrote: > On Aug 18, 1:21 am, Standish P wrote: > > > This you might want to take this to the Forth people because they are > > marketing their language as a cure for all that plagues programming > > today. > > No, they're not. That I agree with. > Stack based lang