Re: Ok, so pop *pop* may be a valid lang, but where's basic?

[Steve Knight]

Aaron Sloman writes:
> I don't know of any versions of BASIC that have the full facilities
> of Pop-11 or Lisp, (all the data-types, garbage collector,
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Although Aaron doesn't explicitly say so, BASIC doesn't need a 
garbage collector because it adopts a philosophy of copying on
assignment.  This is a very expensive solution to avoiding GC
of course.  It also doesn't help when you add shareable store
to the language (e.g. Pascal pointers).

Steve