[tmewett]

Hah, "unnecessarily abstract" is my middle name :)

I don't really like stack/heap terminology. "Heap" especially is a nightmare because (a) it also means some specific, irrelevant kind of data structure and (b) there's so many ways of implementing allocation it feels wrong to call it "the" anything.

Function variables are deleted after return, allocated stuff isn't - no need to know about stack pointers, etc. It's good enough for me!

But it's really interesting to hear from other programmers who learned things in the historical order. I suppose I come from a new generation where abstractions are first, and I wrote this article for them, really.