Some of the characters are missing in this post purely due to pointer errors (probably in my brain).
On Sep 30, 2:36 pm, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote: > It is at lest somewhat comforting to know that even an experience C/C+ > + developer makes plenty of pointer errors. > > The way I see it is that even with the Computer Science background and > understanding O/S memory allocation models and how C/C++ allocates > memory as well as Stack and Heap memory theory the errors still happen > because I am human and miss things sometimes. It is all good and well > when the program flow is simple enough for the allocations and > deallocations to be easy to see and in a straightforward logic. The > more complex the application gets the more complicated it becomes to > manage the memory correctly. Both feeing memory which something is > still using or not freeing it leads to problems. > > I think even someone at Sun implied or said that in an ideal world > everyone would write perfect C/C++ code but things like Java exist > because in practice it turns out that this is really really hard to > do. > > Maybe I should try Assembler just for kicks....I like pain. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
