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From: Florian Weimer <someone@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: Ada vs. C++
Date: 2000/02/11
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"Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:

> You may want to read the december issue of the Linux journal (The interview
> with the author of the Bazaar and the Cathedral). The interesting thing is the
> rise of Python as a scripting language. It is claimed that 90% of  errors in
> "working" software is related to memory management.

The people implementing long-living server processes in Python have
experienced this. ;)  Python memory management is based on reference
counting, and it's quite easy to create cyclic data structures by
accident.