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| From | steve g <Sgonedes1977@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.lisp |
| Subject | Re: Resources to learn common lisp? |
| References | (3 earlier) <87pl21m1i6.fsf@gmail.com> <1107n17$3k6ea$5@dont-email.me> <865x3sthhu.fsf@williamsburg.bawden.org> <87ecie2wj0.fsf@gmail.com> <86zf10sh11.fsf@williamsburg.bawden.org> |
| Date | 2026-06-16 22:54 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <87v7bhq3kt.fsf@gmail.com> (permalink) |
Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> writes: > steve g <sgonedes1977@gmail.com> writes: > >> Alan Bawden <alan@csail.mit.edu> writes: >> >>> I don't think any of Common Lisp, Java, Perl or Python promise to employ >>> any particular algorithm for collecting garbage. It's not something you >>> really need to put in your language specification document. this would be it. >>> All you >>> need to say is that storage management is not something the programmer >>> needs to worry about. Nothing prevents you from implementing a Common >>> Lisp that does reference counting. yes, I believe sun micro can host DNS for the entire planet, Just like when oracle crashed the stock market because they did not state that inserting SQL requests into the transaction log makes things faster. > That's hilarious. I worked for the Lisp Machine project at MIT back in > the 70's. Back then, Garbage Collection was a pretty hot topic. I did > not work on the Lisp Machine's GC, but I was in the room while other > people worked on it they actually let you into their lab? Quite an acomplishment (no sarcasm). > I'm not sure what I said in the paragraph you quoted above that made you > think I was a "newbie". it seems like you are a trustworthy person. the lab and the office are two different places. > That paragraph was intended to contain the > non-controversial part of what I wanted to say. Can you point to > something in the language definitions for any of those languages that > explicitly requires any particular form of garbage collector? these days your type of GC is an IQ thing, IMHO. > For > Common Lisp, Java or Python there may be things in some runtime > libraries that let you query and control the GC, but the language > specification itself is generally limited in what it says about storage > management. if you do not understand why people deviate from the standard, you will not understand the market value/power of a word. > The Common Lisp standard, for example, tells you that there is a > condition called STORAGE-CONDITION, that might get signaled sometimes > -- so if I run out of memory the computer will use virtual memory instead? > but the description of STORAGE-CONDITION is vague enough that I don't > think you can draw any conclusions about what the underlying storage > manager is doing. I usually get a core dump. > There is also the ROOM function, which promises to > output something useful about storage -- but exactly what that includes > is unspecified. Other than those two entries, I don't see much else. again you seem to be too trusting. What is a brand? "A brand is a promise". > Actually, I can't find anyplace in the Common Lisp standard that even > says outright that a Common Lisp implementation is expected to do > automatic storage management, although that's clearly implied all over > the place. what brand do you believe in? > In contrast the Java language specification says right up front in the > 3rd paragraph of the introduction: > > [Java] includes automatic storage management, typically using a > garbage collector, [...] yeah yeah yeah we all now that newer programming languages usually do better than the older ones; usually due to better hardware. I paid $500.00 per stick of EDO ram. all 4 megabytes. > And the Python language reference says (in the "Data Model" chapter): > > An implementation is allowed to postpone garbage collection or omit > it altogether — it is a matter of implementation quality how garbage > collection is implemented, as long as no objects are collected that > are still reachable. sounds like a marketing droid wrote that. I do not like to combine maybe or should with computer languages because deviating from the standard is a primary means for people to make money by inconveniencing yourself. What version of Visual Basic do you use? I loved visual basic version v6, but it is no longer useful to them, so we are not allowed to use it anymore, despite the fact that it is an excellent language. > So I don't see anything preventing a Common Lisp or Java implementation from > doing reference counting, or a Python implementation from _not_ doing > reference counting. (what's Jython doing after all?) dump your science brain for a second and think like a marketdroid. I feel like this would be hard for you (most programmers are beyond stubborn; which freud considered a compliment). Please as much as I love psychology please do not let this not turn into a freud disagreement. I grew up in a world where losing profits as a corporate officer would result in jail time (like prison).
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