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Joel on Software demonstrating the Blub Paradox

Jun 17, 2004 •

Joel on Software demonstrating the Blub Paradox

Joel on Software: "Whenever you hear someone bragging about how productive their language is, they're probably getting most of that productivity from the automated memory management, even if they misattribute it."

Joel unwittingly shows firsthand the Blub Paradox. I'm way more productive in Common Lisp than in Java and yet both have automatic memory management.

# — 17 June, 2004