Quote: manual memory management leads to global bookkeeping, slow memory leaks, dangling pointers, and fixed array sizes

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These problems [with memory management (global bookkeeping, slow memory leaks, dangling pointers, maximum array sizes)] lead many applications programmers to … the headaches of explicit storage management. … Unfortunately, these collectors are often both incomplete and … The fact that such kludges exist despite these … should be part of programming language implementations.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: large software systems often contain an application-specific garbage collector; should be part of the language

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