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p0nce on Jan 27, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Next Big Language

Reference counting is a bad C++ substitute for a real GC.

huhtenberg on Jan 27, 2011 [–]

Sure, absolutely. Just as C++ is a bad substitute for a real language.

(edit) </sarcasm>

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