Darren New wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>> Care to provide some credible links/evidence for this claim?
> 
> Smalltalk-80: The Language and Implementation. Or look into any LISP
> implementation.

Done before 19 - what - 85, at times when there were few 32 bit processors
available near and far? I was almost certain you would did out something
ancient to show "your point".

> As for a newer reference? Not too many around, as people don't use
> reference counting seriously

No, because, frankly, you just neither know what you are talking about, nor
that it is actually being used frequently. In fact, it is so "flawed" that
it made it into ISO/IEC PDTR 19768, aka TR1 for C++ standard library
extensions to be added to ISO C++ 200X. But hey, many string class libraries
(for various languages) use reference counting internally as well.

So sure, even though in fact the very program you use to write your messages
posted to this newsgroup uses reference counting, you say it isn't used
frequently. Maybe you want to change your argument from "people don't use
reference counting seriously", to "Darren New doesn't use programs using
reference counting seriously"? - Because as I take it, as in so many
programming related discussions/flamewars you started before, you managed to
dig a nice big hole for yourself to fall into and not even notice ... oh
well :-(

	Thorsten

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