[TriLUG] Re: Managed languages (was .NET development on Linux)

[Dave Sorenson]

Geeze Tanner.. You working graveyard tonight??

DS 

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> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Tanner Lovelace
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 3:27 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Re: Managed languages (was .NET 
> development on Linux)
> 
> Phillip Rhodes said the following on 6/17/04 5:25 PM:
> 
> > Joseph Tate wrote:
> > 
> >>  Is there a memory management plugin for C/C++ (though that would 
> >> defeat the purpose)?
> > 
> > 
> > Ok, first a nit-pick...I wish people wouldn't write "C slash C++".  
> > That implies that they are the same language, and they're 
> really not.
> > 
> > It *used* to be the case that you could effectively consider C++ a 
> > proper superset of C, but with the latest rev of the C 
> standard, the 
> > languages have diverged enough that it makes sense to quit 
> referring 
> > to them as though they were the same.
> > 
> > Having said that...  Memory management in C++ is made much 
> simpler by 
> > using smart pointers... Google sometime for "C++ smart pointer" or 
> > just "auto_ptr" and read some of the stuff that's out there...
> 
> Phil,
> 
> I was right there with you until you mentioned "auto_ptr".
> auto_ptr is the worst example of a "smart pointer" there is.
> If you want to see a decent smart pointer go to the Boost 
> Library (http://www.boost.org/) and look at some of the ones 
> there which are much more useful than auto_ptr.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
> 
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