Re: How do you choose your programming language ?

--- In hackers-il-hHKSG33TihhbjbujkaE4pw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Nadav Har'El" 
<nyh@xxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2005, Gábor Szabó wrote about "Re: [hackers-il] How
do you choose your programming language ?":
> > What do you think in this regard about Perl6 and Parrot ?
> 
> I don't know, I don't know anything about perl6. What has changed in
Perl 6
> regarding memory handling?
> 
> Perl 5 had reference counting garbage collection, so if by the end of a
> scope an object had no references, it would be freed immediately. In
this
> scheme, both allocation and freeing is actually slower (even
considerably
> slower) than recent Java's "generation-based" garbage collection (if
anyone
> is interested, I can try to summarize what that means), but with the
Perl way,
> your program uses as much or as little memory as it actually needs. This
> is why Perl can be called a lot of things, but I've yet to hear
anyone calling
> Perl programs "memory hogs" or "sluggish", or other words
all-to-often used
> to describe Java *utilities*
> (like I said earlier, in an environment where you have just one huge
Java
> JVM - like cellphones, Web servers, and so on, Java's
use-all-memory-I-can
> model perhaps more sense).
> 

How about this "hack" of Garbage Collector (Borland made it a bit
longer then really needed to be, but it gives you a demonstration
about  how the strength of Delphi (and FPC):
http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,28217,00.html

And you can use a unit that do all of it and just call the function ...

Hows that for language that does not have Garbage Collector ? :)
But I still prefer not to use this types of "hacks".

Ido





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