"Clearly, the Boehm GC is not perfect – it can and will leak some memory – but its heuristics ensure that it never frees memory that is still in use.2 Moreover, since it verifies the chunk address before setting any mark bits, it never modifies user data by accident"
- John Mettraux
lots of Jo[h]ns around here, it's kind of medieval
"There doesn’t seem to be a good tutorial out there for concatenative programming, so I figured I’d write one, inspired by the classic “Why Functional Programming Matters” by John Hughes. With any luck it will get more people interested in the topic, and give me a URL to hand people when they ask what the heck I’m so excited about."
- John Mettraux