Elf Sternberg

I have to say, I don't find this particular example very compelling. I take more issue with the cryptic variable names than the use of a language feature which might come with caveats. Remember, "garbage collection" and other managed language features exist to free programmers from the niggly details of memory management. That this abstraction is leaky is well know, but you can hardly blame people for using the abstraction as intended.