From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Dynamic memory? (was Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java) Date: 1999/01/26 Message-ID: <78jjja$n6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 436956337 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <369F0592.94F9DDDA@dresdner-bank.com> <77pnr4$ch3$1@newnews.global.net.uk> <36a3281a.11980677@news.demon.co.uk> <77vclp$rme@news3.euro.net> <36a34176.18473393@news.demon.co.uk> <77vi92$944@news3.euro.net> <36a357bb.24173519@news.demon.co.uk> <7803e9$825$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78069o$anf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <780a5t$eaj$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <78j2cg$72f$1@plug.news.pipex.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x6.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Jan 26 05:25:06 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-01-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <78j2cg$72f$1@plug.news.pipex.net>, "Nick Roberts" wrote: > I'm very, very pleased to hear that. It's just like > a person learning a little about car mechanics whilst > learning to drive a car. The day is almost certain to > come, sooner or later, when that extra knowledge comes in > very handy. And besides which, knowing how a car > basically works is bound to help > you understand how to drive it better. Off topic, I know, but recently I read that if you ask people who have bought a new car in the last 12 months whether they have ABS or not, then the percentage of people who say yes compared to the actual percentage of cars with ABS differs by about 10%. That means AT LEAST 1 in 10 drivers think they have ABS when they do not, or think they do not have it when they do. Both misconceptions are of course extremely dangerous in hazardous situations. I use this example in my compiler class, so it is not completely irrelevant to this thread :-) -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own