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Case in point, had I not had the fortune of having access to Native Oberon during the university, I would also be an anti-GC voice.

Instead I learned what Oberon allowed me to do, got to dive into the history of programming language research at Xerox PARC, and became a firm believer in GC enabled systems programming languages.

Programming languages landscape lacks dreamers like Alan Kay or Jobs, apparently many only believe in stuff that is demoed in front of them and even if proven wrong, they only care if they can take immediate profit from it and not 5 years down the road.