Garbage collection is a horrible hack that we have accepted into our languages because we are just so bad at managing temporal couplings. If we were adept at keeping track of allocated memory, we would not depend on some nasty background process to clean up after us. But the sad fact is we are so truly terrible at managing temporal couplings that we celebrate the crutches we build to protect ourselves from them.
— Robert C. Martin, Functional Design
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