I agree (with you, nupark) For example, thr other day I was debugging a crash in my Cocoa (ARC) app. I've been programming Cocoa since 10.1, although I stepped

I agree (with you, nupark) For example, thr other day I was debugging a crash in my Cocoa (ARC) app. I've been programming Cocoa since 10.1, although I stepped away for a few years. Anyway, random crash. My "manage memory manually" training knew it was an object getting released too early: I know I needed to retain it. Think think think... Of yes, my @property declaration was missing a retain declaration. Of course cocoa was releasing that object! ARC sure helps, and between it and use of the autorelease pool (thanks Brent Simmons!) I hardly have to worry about memory management at all - except when I do, then I need to know what ARC is or is not doing behind the scenes.