I found that comment strange as well - I consider "put everything on the heap" to be more of the default attitude in dynamic languages (Python, Ruby) and in the

I found that comment strange as well - I consider "put everything on the heap" to be more of the default attitude in dynamic languages (Python, Ruby) and in the statically typed managed languages (Java, C#). In C and C++, I default to the stack, and I don't think I'm alone.