Zach's Journal - More jrm than you can shake a stick at

Welcome to Planet Joe Marshall. I can't get enough of his new website. Today's featured link ties in to some modern history, though.

From the Bits and Pieces page:

When I started using closures I became the major source of runtime garbage at LMI. Most users simply turned of the garbage collector, wrote code that avoided consing, and rebooted once the machine ran out of memory. I thought that the machine should be taking care of the garbage rather than me, so I got nominated to get the GC working.

Of course, in this modern era, rebooting the system has been replaced by the OOM killer.