From: Yohanes Santoso <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2002-05-25T06:42:43+09:00
Subject: Re: FAQ for newcomers familiar with lower level language

Kyle Rawlins <rawlins@cs.umass.edu> writes:

> In short, though memory management is made very easy in Ruby and other GC'd
> languages, it worries me greatly that it could be considered good programming
> practice to write anything beyond a simple script without thinking
> about issues of resource usage.

Thank you Kyle for reminding me of this issue. Sometimes, as better
tools come by, we forgot what our true responsibilities are. Managing
resources is still by far the programmer's responsibility.

The FAQ has been fixed,

YS.