Re: OT:C/C++ Opinion Poll

Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:
C++ doesn't have garbage collection, unless you use a 3rd party library.

A language with pointers can't have garbage collection. C++ without pointers and with garbage collection is called Java.

The Boehm garbage collector works just fine with C++, unless you're
particularly weird, and hide pointers in files or encrypting them. It's
conservative, which mean that it won't collect every last scrap, but
it is used in some pretty hard-core applications.

Clifford Heath.
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