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Is erlang considered managed or do you have to handle memory/pointers?

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According to Craig Stuntz, all functional languages use garbage collection, which essentially means that they are managed languages. Functional programming features do not work well with the semantics of explicit memory release.

Garbage Collection in Erlang
http://prog21.dadgum.com/16.html

Robert Harvey
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I can assure you, you don't have to deal with pointers in Erlang as there is none of these (yeah!).

jldupont