I am a big fan of C, but some part of me always yearn to have just enough higher level constructs. The impracticality of memory allocation in C is one of my pet peeves. Being very easily distracted, I tend to forget to free my memory, or close my resources, so you might guess that when I learned about smart pointers in C++, I was immediately hooked. As a freshman in my IT engineering school, our first semester was mostly about programming in C. We were assigned pretty simple, solo projects, unti...