> I don't remember thinking about who owns a chunk of memory in, for example, C# or Java but I could be wrong and have just internalized it. I wasn't talking a

> I don't remember thinking about who owns a chunk of memory in, for example, C# or Java but I could be wrong and have just internalized it. I wasn't talking about memory management, for which garbage collection is indeed an adequate solution. I'm talking about other resources, which aren't as plentiful as memory (e.g., file descriptors) and thus must be reclaimed in an eager and deterministic fashion.