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Garbage Collection

Garbage Collection - language feature

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Example from Speedie:
|| msg = message() DoSomethingWith(msg) // msg now gets disposed

Languages with Garbage Collection include Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Haskell, TypeScript, Lisp, Julia, Elixir, Smalltalk, APL, ML, Applescript, REBOL, Factor, Speedie, Slope, Pizza, Boron, JS++, Oracle Java, Deesel

Languages without Garbage Collection include C, C++, Objective-C, C3, carp, progsbase, Jule, Dale, popr, Tick C, cooC

This question asks: Does the language have a garbage collector or must memory of constructs be managed manually?

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