From: Adam Flinton 

Paul Ranson wrote:
> You can leak memory and resources in a garbage collected environment. And
> these leaks will be more insidious than a straightforward C++ memory leak.
> With the latter any modern development environment will just tell you what
> you leaked and where it was allocated.
>
> Without the risks you don't get the rewards.
>

You can (not de-referencing objects). But I suspect there is a reason why
even MS refers to doing your own mem as "unsafe".


Adam

> Paul
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:4021bccf$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>>I think what he's saying is you are attributing it to the language
>
> instead
>
>>>of the programmer. I can write bad code in a dozen different languages..
>>
>>I know what he's saying, I just don't agree. (C++ increases risk that
>>doesn't need to be there.)
>>
>>- Bob Comer
>>
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