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    I agree that RAII is the bees knees. But the using clause is a great step forward for C# over Java. It does allow deterministic destruction and thus correct resource management (its not quite as good as RAII as you need to remember to do it, but its definitely a good idea). Commented Nov 7, 2011 at 17:58
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    “When it comes to closing files in Java, it's malloc() and free() over there.” – Absolutely. Commented Nov 7, 2011 at 17:59
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    @KonradRudolph: It is worse than malloc and free. At least in C you don't have exceptions. Commented Nov 7, 2011 at 18:52
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    @Nemanja: Let's be fair, you can free() in the finally. Commented Nov 7, 2011 at 19:10
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    @Loki: The base class problem is much more important as a problem. For example, the original IEnumerable didn't inherit from IDisposable, and there were a bunch of special iterators which could never be implemented as a result. Commented Nov 7, 2011 at 19:10