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garbage collection: a standalone construct

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automatically reclaiming memory occupied by data the program can no longer reach.

In programming languages, garbage collection refers to automatically reclaiming memory occupied by data the program can no longer reach. This meaning comes from McCarthy (1960) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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References

  1. McCarthy, J. (1960). Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I. Communications of the ACM, 3(4), 184-195. https://doi.org/10.1145/367177.367199

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