Linked by Owen Anderson on Mon 19th Apr 2004 05:43 UTC
For years the development scene has been dominated by the C family of languages, primarily C itself and its immediate successor C++. Recent years have given rise to other C-descendents, however, such as Sun's Java and Microsoft's C#.
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Could you not just manually delete objects like in C. I think the author mentions using 'delete'. Not sure if you could turn off garbage collection.
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You are correct. Both are possible. You can disable the garbage collector if you know you don't want it at all, or you can just use the delete operator in instances where you need guaranteed deletion.
Could you not just manually delete objects like in C. I think the author mentions using 'delete'. Not sure if you could turn off garbage collection.
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You are correct. Both are possible. You can disable the garbage collector if you know you don't want it at all, or you can just use the delete operator in instances where you need guaranteed deletion.