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> I added a handful of new slides on HW and DLL interfacing
> to my presentation that is available at
>
http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~skulski/
Wotjek,
An excellent presentation! However, I feel I have to take you to task on
two points:
1. Slide 14 of 90:
"BlackBox is not beta, like .NET still is"
I don't believe that this (i.e. ".NET is beta") was true even back in
February 2004. It certainly is not true now. I have been using it fairly
intensively for the last 12 months or so and have found it to be a very
stable and reliable, release-quality system.
2. Slide 44 of 90:
I believe the advice to use the statement
arr := NIL;
is misguided and the results are potentially dangerous. The whole point
of garbage collection is to let the system, rather than the programmer,
decide when it is safe to reclaim memory. Assigning NIL to pointers is
essentially the same as "de-allocating by hand" and as unsafe as using
Dispose (or its equivalent) always was.
However, to put these comments into perspective - they simply mean that
I can only give you a mark of 99.98 out of 100 for your presentation
instead of a perfect score! I hope that it reaches as wide an audience
as possible.
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com
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