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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Common Lisp. It could be described as C with Elixir macros, pattern
matching, and a semantic object system. The idea is to plug macros and
pattern matching into C99 and use them to implement the graph database.
-The garbage collector is optional, like in C.
+There is no garbage collector.
```
defmodule C3 do