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		batista on March 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Objective-C is Hard Well, same goes for every non memory managed object in any language. Like, SWT objects in Java. Or file descriptors. Or DB connections.

mirkules on March 6, 2012 [–]

Indeed, as Aaron above mentioned, ARC doesn't absolve the programmer of the responsibility of proper memory management, it's just less overhead to have to worry about.

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