Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On Mon, 1 Apr 2024 11:15:52 -0700
John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:

And while this is pretty true of scripting languages, it doesn't make
for a good point-of-contrast with "non-scripting" languages; *piles*
of them include support for automatic memory management, and some
(outside of the C family) don't even include facilities for doing it
"by hand."

And, in fact, C actually does one specific bit of automatic memory
management itself - the stack, which may or may not even *be* a true
hardware stack (depending on the architecture,) and which is handled in
an entirely transparent fashion* by compiler-generated entry/exit code
generated by the compiler for each function.

* (Until you go and pass a pointer to a local variable to some piece of
  code that expects it to still be valid later, natch.)