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April 19, 2003

Recycling

Chris Brumme's superb (and, ie., way-over-my-head) weblog is all about .NET/CLR technicalities. Today, talking about lifetimes and garbage collection, something familiar:

This [judicious use of GC.KeepAlive(), etc] is all far too messy. It runs counter to the goals for our new managed platform to force developers to worry about this sort of thing.
Heh, yes, indeed. Why can't software be easy and straightforward? :-)