title: Does fortran have a garbage collector(gc)?
body: <p>I was recently talking to somebody who said he did program Fortran(from way back), but he could not tell me if Fortran had a garbage collector. He told me he did not use malloc or free in Fortran, so my assumption is that it does have a garbage collector? Or does fortran not have a garbage collector and just leak memory, which will get reclaimed by the operating system when the program ends? I do not know anything about Fortran, except that it was used way back. I also tried a quick Google search, but could not find anything that quickly.</p>