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On 06/06/2011 02:47 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> The whole managed-code/auto-garbage-collected concept may really appeal to
> corporate code-cutter types, but I think it has real trouble in the mass
> market.

 From a programming language design concept, one thing is abundantly 
clear: manually-managed memory is a failure. Most programmers--even the 
very best--have very little ability to prevent memory from being leaked. 
That's why pretty much everyone accuses every very large application 
written in native languages as acting like a leaky bucket: Windows, 
Firefox, etc.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth