Garbage Collection

Maxim: Anything that a computer can do is beneath human dignity.

Manually managing memory requires large amounts of bookkeeping code for something that a computer could easily do. Not only that, it has been a constant source of bugs in programs for decades. Moreover, garbage collection makes a language more expressive, by letting objects be shared between different data structures, something not with manual deallocation where every object must have a known owner, or the programmer must implement an ad-hoc GC mechanism such as reference counting. Thus, Garbage Collection is good, and still calling free is nothing short of embarrassing.

>>8

No computers cannot write code or at least in the way you are suggesting. What are programmers for? Programming. They write programs, such as windows or linux or quake or firefox or something. There is no computer that can do such a thing.

A programmer has an understanding of an idea, and then finds a means of creating an implementation. There is a way to compare the work so far to the conceptual idea. Eventually, the implementation is more or less materialized. A computer that can take a representation of an idea, produce implementations, and compare work to the idea will have the ability to do the same process. It isn't trivial, but you can't rule out the possibility.

I'm sure he knows more than you, who are you exactly? Someone posting on /prog/.

>>4 could be ndantam3 for all you know. Or are you ndantam3?