Java just made away with all this silly (my expression!) pointer stuff, which
makes an awful lot of sense to me. I didn't say the memory management is
archaic -we all know it isn't-; I said the allocation of it via manual C
coding is. That's the last thing I want to worry about when writing
applications.
On the risk of being simplistic, that's why I always liked silly simple dBASE.
I could concentrate on the code and didn't have to worry about allocating
chunks and blocks, locking them, unlocking them, marking them dirty, you name
it.
_I_ think we have progressed to a stage where this shouldn't be necessary
anymore, and the Java guys have proven me right.
Helmar