Re: Memory Management Mismanaged
Re: Memory Management Mismanaged
- Subject: Re: Memory Management Mismanaged
- From: Pete Yandell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 20:59:01 +1000
Memory management is something today's programmers should not have to
deal with. It has been around as an issue for more than fifty years
and we still can't come to grips with it!
I completely agree that garbage collection is a wonderful thing...I
don't think anybody would argue that these days.
What's the solution? Well, Lisp since the sixties, Smalltalk since
the eighties, Java since the nineties, plus any number of other
languages have had automatic garbage collection...
OK, so write in Java and stop complaining! :)
Seriously though, grafting full garbage collection onto objective-C
would clearly be pretty close to impossible so, until the next
generation of languages takes over, we'll just have to live with
reference counting, which is not such a bad solution.
Incidentally, while we're talking Apple and garbage collection, did
anyone else here ever do any development in NewtonScript? :) Ah, fond
memories.
Pete Yandell
http://pete.yandell.com/
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