This post is going to be short and sweet, because the point is very simple: If you use a functional programming language (and, if you want to learn to think outside of the Delphi box, you should), then you will be using garbage collection. There are many reasons why this is the case. Garbage collection is a core feature of functional programming, because functional programming features do not work well with the semantics of explicit memory release. It is telling that language implementors ha...