Re: the advantages of garbage collection

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

the classic example is C++...

We aren't talking C++, we are talking RPG. What information do you have as
it pertains to RPG?

C++ and RPG have similar memory management models. With the
constructor and destructor, C++ simply has more features than RPG for
managing allocated memory.

the problem with this approach is what do you do if the driver CL module

never ends? It's function is to process requests from a data queue. By never
returning, the AG would not be reclaimed, and the job would eventually have
gigabytes of memory allocated.

The problem as I see it is that programming practices specific to other
types of environments are trying to be implemented into an environment that
has a fairly different fundamental infrastructure and zero fundamental need
to implement those types of practices. With RPG and data access I simply go
back to the well (i.e. DB2) if I need more water vs. trying to build
infrastructure to pass around an SQL result set.

the new language integrated query ( LINQ ) feature of C# 3.0 addresses
everyday processing needs of business applications. My point with all
of this is you cant provide LINQ like functionality in a language
without a GC memory model ( and of course classes, delegates,
anonymous types, ... )