I probably have the quote completely wrong,
but Dan Healy, sound man for The Grateful Dead an inventor of much of
modern concert hall sound technology said something like "Bozos are
fine people and fun to be around but that doesn't mean that I would
let one near my soundboard with a pair of diagonal pliers."
I personally like having the choices. I don't want to be bothered with
malloc/free when I'm hacking together an awk or python script. On
the other hand, when it has to run fast or do lots of TPS inside a kernel,
I really don't want somebody else deciding when a good time to take
a 'hiccup' in performance is... It all depends on what I'm doing since
using techniques from the latter to optimize the former is a waste of
time. The whole reason I do a GC'd language is to write what I'm writing
faster with less hassle...
Some days I'm Dan Healy, some days I'm waving diagonal pliers around... :)
Warner