Python vs Java garbage collection?

[Erik Max Francis]

Isaac To wrote:

> What if C-Python is the only thing I used and care?

Software tends to have a much longer lifetime and breadth than you first
expect.  One day you may find yourself in a situation where you wish you
hadn't been so short-sighted when you first wrote that code.

> And, you simply cannot
> say that's broken if I have no way to test it (how about a flag of
> Python to
> "disable garbage collection"?  Then one can reasonably test whether he
> is
> relying on the GC too much.).

Relying on a certain form of unspecified behavior is "broken," whether
or not it happens to work for you right here, right now.

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