This would make a good addition to the related-work section: <a href="http://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/AgoricsPapers/agoricpapers/ie/ie0.html" rel="nofollow">http://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/AgoricsPapers/agoricpapers/ie/i...</a> from 1988.
Using a similar analogy in the opposite direction: <a href="http://countercomplex.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-resource-leak-bug-of-our.html" rel="nofollow">http://countercomplex.blogspot.ca/2014/08/the-resource-leak-...</a> and discussion at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8679471" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8679471</a>