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

Is erlang considered managed or do you have t开发者_如何学Goo handle memory/pointers?

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
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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!).