A blog of my programming experience
Java has pointers. People who say that Java does not have pointers are lying. The most confusing point is that, pointers in Java are not called pointers, but called “references” instead. However, a reference is completely different from a pointer. Although Java…
In C++, polymorphism does not take place within constructors: #include <iostream> using namespace std; struct Base { Base() { foo(); } virtual ~Base() {} virtual void foo() { cout << “Base::foo()\n”; } }; struct Derived : Base { void foo() { cout…
Programming languages with built-in garbage collection (GC) is often praised as no memory leaks, less error-prone, etc but I don’t disagree with this. This article brings you some facts of GC that is never mentioned by advertisements. GC automatically frees resources that…
I dislike Java very much, mainly due to its lack of features: Object model Objects and values In C++, a primitive variable is an object, a class variable is an object, a pointer variable is an object, everything that has an address,…