>   You mention GC as if it was some kind of requirement for safe OOP
> languages. There's no such connection. It's only necessary for languages
> where objects are allocated dynamically and don't go out of scope by
> themselves. I'm not even sure *why* Java has such objects.

And I'm not sure how you would do a whole bunch of simple things 
*without* such objects.

> It could
> perfectly work without them (just remove 'new' and use internally
> some kind of reference-counting copy-on-write system).

I have no idea why after all these years people still think reference 
counting is a good idea. It's so trivial to find an example where it 
utterly fails...

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