Python vs Java garbage collection?

[Erik Max Francis]

Isaac To wrote:

> Hm... what if by that time I have already switched to a completely
> different
> language?

What does that have to do with anything?  Maybe the world will end
tomorrow.  So what?

> Okay, if you want to say it's broken, that's up to you, but then the
> code of
> everybody tends to be "broken" anyway.

It's broken in that it may exhibit unexpected, pathological, and awful
behavior on other Python interpreters.  Python is a language; CPython
(and Jython) are particular implementations.  Write to the language, not
a particular implementation.

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