30 Dec
2012
30 Dec
'12
1:24 a.m.
On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 02:22:59 -0500
Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
I am very thankfull
that C++ doesn't impose garbage collection on me,
but gives me the choice to use it where apropriate. It is very
disturbing to me that I can't use the RAII idiom in Java and have to
work around this with try-catch-finally. So you get automatic memory
management, but you have to manage your resources manualy. Thats
awkward und cumbersome.
And I surely don't want a garbage collector when programming C++ on a
8 bit microcontroler with a few dozen bytes of RAM...
As allways:
One size does not fit all.
Different jobs need different tools.
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\end{Jochen}
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Maybe you
haven't looked at C++ in a while. Modern C++ is a single
language that can encompass many programming styles.
Except those styles enabled
by real, designed-in garbage collection.
There are reasons why most higher level languages use it. :)