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  3. June 2008

Re: Is RPG 'DEAD"

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Haas, Matt (CL Tech Sv)
<matt.haas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Steve,

I understand you like the MS Kool-Aid a lot but I don't understand the memory leaks
comment. Are you saying RPG is inferior to other languages in that regard because you
have to go out of your way to make them happen?

I think activation groups hide what are in fact memory leaks (
allocated memory which is not freed ). But then a lot of RPG code
does not use %alloc and pointers. The managed code feature of C#
makes the .NET framework and collection classes possible. The suite
of collection classes you see in Java and C# are not available in RPG.
that is because of the lack of a garbage collector.

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