Re: real authority on what needs to be released
Re: real authority on what needs to be released
- Subject: Re: real authority on what needs to be released
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 00:19:34 +0200
On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 11:22 , Bill Cheeseman wrote:
It isn't easy for a newbie to interpret how this simple rule is actually
applied in lots and lots of situations. Some of the articles cited earlier
give many examples of how this rule should be applied in particular
situations. But new questions are constantly encountered while
programming.
It takes thought, reading, and experimentation to get it right.
Anybody who says that the simple rule is all you need to know ought to try
reading the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The rule is real
simple: the right of free speech shall not be infringed. More than 200
years
later, you still have to read hundreds of thousands of pages of judicial
decisions to know just a little bit about what that means in practice.
There's a world of difference though. The memory management rules *are*
simple, and to know how they would be applied in a particular example, you
need just to apply plain logic (and to know how to do that, of course, but
for a programmer that should be granted).
Last time the law worked by logic though was I guess a few years before
those ten Sinai points were given to Moses ;)
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Ondra Cada
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