Date: | Mon Nov 19 17:55:32 1992 | |
Subject: | Re: Ok, so pop *pop* may be a valid lang, but where's basic? | |
From: | Steve Knight | |
Volume-ID: | 921120.06 |
Aaron Sloman writes: > I don't know of any versions of BASIC that have the full facilities > of Pop-11 or Lisp, (all the data-types, garbage collector, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Although Aaron doesn't explicitly say so, BASIC doesn't need a garbage collector because it adopts a philosophy of copying on assignment. This is a very expensive solution to avoiding GC of course. It also doesn't help when you add shareable store to the language (e.g. Pascal pointers). Steve |