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From: leew@micrologic.com (Lee Webber)
Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake)
Date: 1997/08/29
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 <01bcb38a$8ddc1200$1c10d30a@ntwneil> <dewar.872791474@merv>
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 comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.tech,comp.lang.c++
Date: 1997-08-29T00:00:00+00:00
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On 28 Aug 1997 14:05:41 -0400, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
wrote:

>James P. White <jim@pagesmiths.com> wrote in article
><3404670B.C3A2C4A2@pagesmiths.com>...
>> Even though Java lacks anything as comprehensive as DBC, in our
>> experience the simple matter of having automatic memory management and
>> pointer protection has yielded a productivity boost of several hundred
>> percent.
>
>If automatic memory management really cut down your development time by
>a factor of several, I hate to think of what on earth you were doing to
>waste that much time previously.

And here you ignored "and pointer protection".  There is more to
pointer problems than the premature release of objects.