
Wednesday, July 14, 1999
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Dwayne: This is great! Back in the trenches, coding again... Uh, wait a minute, Nick...
Dwayne: Don't you have to deallocate the memory that object is using?
Nick: Not in Java. The garbage collector frees memory automatically.
Dwayne: Wow... Is there anything you have to do yourself?
Nick: Not with a good IDE. I think I only write three lines of code in this entire applet.

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