How far can stack [LIFO] solve do automatic garbage collection and prevent memory leak ?

[Alex McDonald]

On 25 Aug, 01:00, Hugh Aguilar <hughaguila... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Aug 24, 4:17 pm, Richard Owlett <rowl... at pcnetinc.com> wrote:
>
> > Hugh Aguilar wrote:
> > > [SNIP ;]
>
> > > The real problem here is that C, Forth and C++ lack automatic garbage
> > > collection. If I have a program in which I have to worry about memory
> > > leaks (as described above), I would be better off to ignore C, Forth
> > > and C++ and just use a language that supports garbage collection. Why
> > > should I waste my time carefully freeing up heap space? I will very
> > > likely not find everything but yet have a few memory leaks anyway.
>
> > IOW Hugh has surpassed GIGO to achieve AGG -
> > *A*utomatic*G*arbage*G*eneration ;)
>
> The C programmers reading this are likely wondering why I'm being
> attacked. The reason is that Elizabeth Rather has made it clear to
> everybody that this is what she wants:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.forth/browse_thread/thread/c...
>
> Every Forth programmer who aspires to get a job at Forth Inc. is
> obliged to attack me. Attacking my software that I posted on the FIG
> site is preferred, but personal attacks work too. It is a loyalty
> test.

Complete bollox. A pox on your persecution fantasies.

This isn't about Elizabeth Rather or Forth Inc. It's about your
massive ego and blind ignorance. Your example of writing code with
memory leaks *and not caring because it's a waste of your time* makes
me think that you've never been a programmer of any sort. Ever.

In a commercial environment, your slide rule code would be rejected
during unit testing, and you'd be fired and your code sent to the bit
bucket.

This isn't about CS BS; this is about making sure that banks accounts
square, that planes fly, that nuclear reactors stay sub-critical; that
applications can run 24 by 7, 365 days a year without requiring any
human attention.

So who designs and writes compilers for fail-safe systems? Who designs
and writes operating systems that will run for years, non-stop? Where
do they get the assurance that what they're writing is correct -- and
provably so? From people that do research, hard math, have degrees,
and design algorithms and develop all those other abstract ideas you
seem so keen to reject as high-falutin' nonsense.

I'd rather poke myself in the eye than run any of the crap you've
written.