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The article claims garbage collection was invented in the JVM! I wonder what that old DEC-20 was doing when it reported to all terminals that garbage collection was ongoing...

Or what the mark/release garden of eden model of Smalltalk was...



The article claims JVMs were invented around the same time, and that they happened to include garbage collectors.




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