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#11 What is a Programming Language?

Kopec Explains Software

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Object Oriented Programming Languages - Memory Management

In memory management, there's really three different main paradigms. Manual memory management is the most difficult for a programmer because they need to do a lot of bookkeeping on their own. In garbage collection, I don't need to think about freeing memory at all as the programmer. So you go from manual memory management where you have the least amount of performance costs, but you have the most cost on the cognitive overlet of the programmer.

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