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

[Dave Sorenson]

Yeah the irony hit me too! I'm working on a web site for my wedding, fiancé
wants to see something soon. GG

DS 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Stanley B. Briggs
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 3:35 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Re: Managed languages (was .NET 
> development on Linux)
> 
> 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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