Heikki Tuuri wrote:C versus object-oriented lanuguages like C++/Java is a topic I have discussed a lot with programmers. I believe that traditional procedural approaches and languages, like C, are the best for 'systems programming', by which I mean implementing anything with complex data structures and lots of parallelism. A DBMS is a typical example of such a complex program.
3) A weakness of C compared to Java is memory management. In C you can easily write programs that leak memory or run over allocated buffers. In practice, it has turned out to be relatively easy to keep these memory management bugs at a tolerable level in our C programs, so that a move to a language with automatic memory management is not needed.
In Java is it easy to write a program that wastes large amounts of memory, which is worse than a leak. In C, you are full from the start, and then you leak a drop at a time until you are empty. In Java , you are empty from the start, and you have nothing to leak anyway even if you could :-)
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/shah01java.html
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