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1 point by tac-tics 6110 days ago | link | parent | on: On the need for garbage collection

Garbage collection, like tail call optimization, is a mere implementation detail. Any self-respecting Turing Machine has an unbounded storage tape. It quite like civilization's answer to nuclear waste. Just bury it, mark off that section of land, and move onto the next!

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