[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

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In article <memo.20220130154429.12544b at jgd.cix.co.uk>, jgd at cix.co.uk (John Dallman) writes:
>In article <st4sup$gh9$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com
>(Richard Maher) wrote:
>
>> And if you can program some MACRO then you need a Garbage Collect 
>> to cover up your lack of skill in managing memory.
>
>Not really. Programs written in assembly languages tend to have much
>simpler memory management schemes than ones written in high-level
>languages. If the program is at all complex, some memory allocation and
>deallocation macros are usually written, and one can make those complain
>about mismatched allocates and frees. 

BS.  If/when memory is allocated it needs to be deallocated when it is no
longer needed.  Same goes for pushing things on the stack -- push data on
and pop data off.  Assembly language programmers are generally just better
at those sorts of things because the results of mucking up are not pretty.

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