Yeah, definitely a little glib. There are certainly prominent exceptions. Still, I think it's a valid general principle. At least, it works well enough for me,

Yeah, definitely a little glib. There are certainly prominent exceptions. Still, I think it's a valid general principle. At least, it works well enough for me, and I very rarely have to think consciously about memory management in C. But YMMV, different application domains, and all that.