On Friday, 27 February 2015 at 13:36:33 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote:
AddRef/Release is established COM terminology.
Which is from 1993, a period of time where MS was completely ignorant of everything outside MS.
Common resource-access terminology is: acquire/release retain/release inc_ref/dec_ref add_ref/remove_ref down/up wait/signal P/V open/close enter/exit begin/end … Notice the symmetry?
