Hi KiT, well, if you want to do embedded programming you shouldn't rely too much on the garbage collection, as you've usually very limited resources. So it's a great benefit knowing what is going on in the system and having everthying under control. Otherwise you may be in trouble with running out of resources. So it's very helpful to do some things the hard way, it's usually easier then being effective on managed languages as well. Bye, Florian