I was careful to qualify "some" programmers and avoid generalization. Some younger programmers like this, some others like that. The difference is in ancient ti

I was careful to qualify "some" programmers and avoid generalization. Some younger programmers like this, some others like that. The difference is in ancient times I don't remember so many people liking discipline languages. Funny thing is Pascal was seen as the constraints language at that time, while C was more liberal. Different times. In Pascal evolution (Delphi and Lazarus), a lot of automatic memory management, including proper gc but most often simple referemce count, has been incorporated over the years. Also the memory for a lot of standard library resources is managed hierarchically. In short: You still need to know how to deal with memory manually, but most of the time you don't.