Manual and automatic

- [Instructor] So fundamentally,…when we start thinking about…how we're going to do this memory management,…we're left with, essentially, two basic approaches.…One, which was the favorite approach…for C programmers for many, many years…is the idea that the programmer will in fact be responsible…for the allocation and deallocation of memory.…That is to say that memory management is too important…to be left up to the system.…The other approach, the opposite of manual, of course,…would be automatic, meaning that it's something…that the programmer doesn't deal with directly.…

Or more importantly,…that the system in fact assists him with.…Memory management is too important…to be left up to the programmer.…This was the approach favored…by the Lisp programmers back in the day.…In terms of modern languages and tooling and what not,…we tend to see a little bit of a mix of both.…There's a little bit of manual,…but for the most part, the emphasis is to try to move…to a more automatic memory management approach.…That is to say, let's let the computer…