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From: Robb.Nebbe@di.epfl.ch (Robb Nebbe)
Subject: Re: Does memory leak?
Date: 1995/03/30
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In article <milodD67p8t.5xK@netcom.com>, milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo) writes:
|> Theodore Dennison <dennison@escmail.orl.mmc.com> writes:
|> 
|> >I mean, if you don't deallocate what you allocate, your program will
|> >leak memory no matter what language it is written in. This isn't an Ada
|> >issue, it's an issue of sloppy coding.
|> 
|> Huh?  Haven't you ever worked with a garbage-collected language?
|> Languages like Smalltalk allow you to allocate stuff all day,
|> and they don't even have a deallocate operation;  the run-time
|> system figures out when the program is done with a piece of storage
|> and deallocates it for you.
|> 

Garbage collection doesn't change the fact that someone has to
deallocate the memory it just changes who is responsible. In
general it really isn't an issue of sloppy code; however, if
the programmer is responsible then it is an issue of sloppy
code.

Robb Nebbe