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    \$\begingroup\$ I liked the Unlambda answer, but this one is (IMHO) too much of a stretch, as it is obviously the interpreter itself which leaks the memory, i.e. I get ` definitely lost: 7,742 bytes in 14 blocks` when I run perl --version on my machine, despite it never gets to running any program, at all. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Feb 19, 2017 at 7:14
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    \$\begingroup\$ @zeppelin: Agreed, but according to our rules, it's the implementation that defines the language, thus if the implementation leaks memory, all programs in the language leak memory. I'm not necessarily sure I agree with that rule, but at this point it's too entrenched to really be able to change. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Feb 19, 2017 at 9:03
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    \$\begingroup\$ This also works in Node JS. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Feb 19, 2017 at 18:40
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    \$\begingroup\$ This feels like a new standard loophole in the making... \$\endgroup\$ Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 3:32
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    \$\begingroup\$ Finally a Perl script that I can understand. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Feb 22, 2017 at 16:05