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Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++
From: [email protected] (Jim Adcock)
Subject: Re: Inheritance Blues.  Was: What is a "Pure" OOPL
Date: 19 Aug 93 18:40:09 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Robert Martin) writes:
|[email protected] (John Max Skaller) writes:
|>	Object Orientation in a *static* language like C++
|>is fraught with problems that dont exist in systems with
|>more run-time support (like Garbage Collection).

GC has been implemented in both static and dynamic typing OOPLs,
so GC or the lack thereof does not depend on 'static'.  C++ doesn't
have GC because of the [mistaken] impression that GC must be expensive,
and because weakness in the type-safety of C++ make good GC difficult.
Given a strongly typed, type-safe, statically typed language, GC can be
implemented very well indeed.