klimas@astro.pc.ab.com (07/03/90)
> Syntax and parsing issues are relatively unimportant compared > to these implementation problems. I still maintain that closures > are a powerful and useful language feature and think they > should stay on the "wish list". Of course, I also believe that > garbage collection is well-worth the 10% overhead that a good > incremental garbage collector consumes. Programmers' time > and program correctness are far more important than a > program than runs a mere 10% faster. Good heavens, you go up to a modern Smalltalk user and he'll be bitching about the need to further reduce the present 2%-4% garbage collection overhead they're experiencing! <GRIN>