Archive for November, 2007

Pointers – Vows and Concerns

One great feature managed environments such as java and .net claim is the role and use of garbage collector. In this article we will be looking and the main pointer vows of C/C++ which acted as motivation for evolution of managed environment and garbage collection. In this section we will talk about

  • Wild Pointer
  • Dangling Pointer
  • Memory Leak

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C – A Brief History

C is quirky, flawed and an enormously success – Dennis Ritchie

The story of the success of C is often told and retold. C is deemed as the mother of all modern programming languages since almost all surviving modern programming language finds it origin or resemblance with this language. However there are two points that must be interesting to note about this very high profile mother of modern programming languages –First, the story of C begins, interestingly, with a failure.

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