On Jun 24, 2009, at 09:14, Philip Aker wrote:
> Like Gwynne, I'm comfortable with the traditional "reap what you sow"
> philosophy. This has benefits in that the basic policy spills over into
> other areas of programming and gradually, one
>learns as a matter of habit, to account for things all the time. This is good
>but can be lumped in with many other things learned from the school of hard
>knocks. With GC, the attitude is like one
>could fire a shotgun into a crowd and the walk away because the system will
>take responsibility for the consequences. Maybe you could say that's a moral
>issue. But it's certainly not
>something children should be taught in school.
I think it depends what language you weaned yourself on. If you've used Lisp or
some other functional language, manual reclamation is an unthinkable
monstrosity. If you weaned yourself on C or similar languages, manual
reclamation seems like the default state of play.
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