Re: OT: Language War (Re: "C" Manual)

[William T Wilson <fluffy@snurgle.org>]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Richard Cobbe wrote:

> I'll agree that the two are related; in fact, I'd go so far as to say
> that if a language supports dynamic memory allocation and type-safety,
> it *has* to have some sort of automatic storage management system.

I don't think that necessarily follows; a manual mechanism for freeing
resources would then just set the reference to a NULL value.

But I think that most strongly typed languages do have automatic resource
management of some sort, because it is so useful :}