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		chalst on Nov 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I loved C. But it always fell short for me. Object... I think eropple's point was that ARC is not a very high-level sort of approach to GC, i.e., not Lisp-style exact GC.

eropple on Nov 8, 2011 [–]

That's right (sorry, forgot about this thread). Not saying that ARC is bad, for where it's used--but it doesn't strike me as terribly "high-level".

(Neither, though, does C++, and smart pointers don't help there either. ;) )

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