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

[Stanley B. Briggs]

funny that you ask that question. i was just thinking "don't these people
have a life?". ... then i realized that i'm reading it in the same
real-time that they're sending them.

oh, well ...



> Geeze Tanner.. You working graveyard tonight??
>
> DS
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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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