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Steve Richter wrote:
never said it. ( at least publicly! ) Last week it was asked if RPG
was a dead language. Without objects and a GC, RPG simply cant be
improved beyond what it is now.

Sure it can ... it gets improved all the time.

As it is, RPG is a great language for programming business applications. Better, IMO, than Java is by a long shot.

And, as I said before, GC is *NOT* a language concept ... it's an execution environment concept.

I maybe wrong here (please correct me if I am) ... but GC is *NOT* a mandatory function of an object oriented execution environment. I _think_ GC is used in Java because it's an interpretive language and freeing memory occupied by unused objects is fairly expensive. GC would not be necessary in Java if the memory could be freed as soon as the object reference was removed.

david


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