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It is still way easier than using languages with manual memory management like C and Pascal derivatives.

Since you are not forced to think about lifetimes, then you get memory leaks, double frees and dangling pointers, usually leading to crashes in totally unrelated locations or worse, security exploits.



Um, right. I did suggest a managed language as an alternative.


Yeah right, but for me managed is a term coined by Microsoft as .NET was introduced.

Any language with automatic memory management, be it via dataflow analysis, RC or GC is managed.




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