Expressive programming language? Was: [Gllug] Speaker Suggestion

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Sat Jan 17 15:58:27 UTC 2004


On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 03:56:48PM +0000, Mamading Ceesay wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:16:25 +0000
> Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, the garbage collectors in Java (in particular) and Emacs are
> > dreadfully bad examples.  Try a language like OCaml where the garbage
> > collector is just amazing.
> > 
> 
> Are you by any chance related to the Richard Jones responsible for this page on Garbage Collection?  Or is it just an amazing coincidence?
> 
> http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/gc.html

Pure coincidence, I'm afraid.

'The other' Rich.

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