In both .NET and Java, the garbage collector is smart enough to detect and release circular references. Dealing with circular references in C++, however, isn't as simple. Listing 2 contains a buggy ...

I have Visual Studio .NET and I was fooling around with Microsoft's Managed Extensions. They let you write garbage collected objects in C++, and it is presented as a fundamentally new paradigm. I ...

So I've made my first tentative steps into C++, when all my previous experience has been with languages with dynamic memory management. I've started using SDL to put together a very simple game to ...