Re: win32 design patterns
"Tamas Demjen" wrote:
When I was first introduced to .NET, my initial reaction was
this: "Oh oh... a disaster of extraordinary proportion is about
to happen. This language has exceptions, but absolutely no
concept of resource management."
Nothing could be farther form the truth. Why do you think .NET
environment called "managed" after all? For exactly the reason
that it manages resources for you. .NET has garbage collector,
wich can be tuned to great extend. GC makes RAII irrlevant in most
of the cases.
C# is a great language, but those who got spoiled by shared_ptr
can feel a little paranoid. At least the language has the
`using' keyword, which is a half-baked solution, but in most
practical cases it works. My real concern is not C#, but
VB.NET...
You feel paranoid because of the habit to think in C++, were you
control resource management precisely. Many die hard C-coders feel
the same way about C++ because they can't see how virtual calls
are made or destructors are called.
Alex
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