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[QUOTE="James Kanze, post: 5043057"]
Not using dynamic allocation at all can be safer than GC.  And while GC
can allow a higher degree of safety than other systems which manipulate
pointers, the code I've seen in Java and C# doesn't implement this
higher degree of safety (and you can use GC in C++, if you need it).

In the end, it depends on what you mean by safety.  If you're handling
web reqests on an open server, and you're worried about viruses, then GC
is a must, even in C++; you simply cannot run the risk of a block of
memory being reused as long as there are pointers around which refer to
it in it's previous use.  (Of course, this safety is really only useful
if you actively mark the memory as invalid, and crash the code if it is
accessed.)  For a lot of applications, however, C++ is far simpler and
safer than Java or C#.  (Overloaded operators and value semantics are
almost necessary for anything mathematical, for example.  You just
cannot do mathematical software in Java.)
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