[computer-go] Language

[Christoph Birk]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Hellwig Geisse wrote:
> The type of software I had in mind was an interactive system,
> running for days (or even months) without restarting, together
> with the possibility of creating function closures. I find it
> hard to imagine how you can do that without a garbage collector.

I write (astronomical) instrument control software in C that
runs for days (upto weeks). I call malloc() when I need memory
and free() when the particular sub-task is done ... no problem.

Christoph