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On 6/6/2011 8:35 AM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> 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.
>

you know... some of us use garbage collectors in C...