>>>Heaps require active management; a heap doesn't go away automagically, and in many cases a good deal of effort is needed to manage free space on the heap with several different possible management styles available.
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>Yeah, I read about the garbadge collection stuff.
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>Its not until I started learning C++ did I really begin to appreciate the utilty of programs like VFP and JAVA.
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...and all that time my mom spent nagging to clean up my room was really a secret plot to try to make me appreciate programming languages with automatic garbage collection...