From: Joao Pedrosa <joaopedrosa@...>
Date: 2005-02-10T10:31:19+09:00
Subject: Re: What a language!

Hi,

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:16:20 +0900, Navindra Umanee
<navindra@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Douglas Livingstone <rampant@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Don't crash when a filter changes the subject of a message which
> > > > results in the attempt to remove it from the tree of subject
> > > > threading messages failing and the detached child looking for a
> > > > new parent finding the old parent as the new parent, which in
> > > > turn results in the child being deleted with the old (and new)
> > > > parent, which is not a good idea, since it is still referenced.
> > > > > > (Till Adams commit on kdepim/kmail/kmheaders.cpp in HEAD,
> > > > 6. Jan. 2005)
> >
> > > Totally off topic, but what a comment!
> > >
> >
> > Bets that there are nocomments like that in any production Ruby app?
> 
> Instead we get huge mysterious memory leaks. :-)

This is a problem with all the languages, even with the garbage
collected ones. :-) "More creativity + More done" is the real cause of
the memory leaks in languages like Ruby. :-) But Java too has such
problems, mind you. It's good to bring up this because reality is
usually a little bit harder in every language.

Regards,
Joao