Hallo, Andrew Coppin wrote:
C++ has some interesting ideas. I haven't learned how to use templates yet, but what I do find interesting is that there is no automatic memory management, and yet you can still do fairly dynamic programming. I've never seen any other language that allows this. (I had assumed it's impossible...) This makes me wonder just now necessary GC really is, and whether there is some way to avoid it...
Garbage collection was invented by Lisp implementors because of a common pattern in functional languages: The sharing of parts of structures, like lists. In an imperative world this is straightforward, one allocates a linked list, uses it, and then releases the memory. In a world full of closures that may have captured parts of your list, manual memory management is near impossible. -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/