"I am willing to grant the significance of 1989—1992 as time in which I witnessed a substantial depoliticization, a breakdown of much of the underground political and artistic networks of the “youth culture” of my generation"

strange...i always saw 1988/89-1992 as a time of very intense politicization among the 'youth culture' i was familiar with...

that time frame saw things like BDP's 'By Any Means Necessary' & 'Ghetto Music', Public Enemy's 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back' & 'Fear of a Black Planet', Ice-T's 'O.G.', Ice Cube's 'Amerikkka's Most Wanted' & 'The Predator', Paris' 'The Devil Made Me Do It', X-Clan's 'To the East Blackwards', The Disposable Heroes of Hihoprisy's 'Hipocrisy Is the Greatest Luxury', plus groups like Arrested Development, Poor Righteous Teachers, Digable Planets, etc....which took hip-hip out of the 'party people' mode of the 80's...or, as Chuck D said, "I'm past the days of yes y'all-in'"...& repoliticized it (picking up again the things Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambataa, & The Last Poets were doing previously)...

If I could ever stay sober enough to pen a rationally construed thought I would readily respond to Mr. Stroffolino’s comments with a cough and put my drawers on, but as we attempt to look into the past we draw conclusions which are more palatable than the present situation, if only for reason of the reconstructive ability of mass amnesia. I was a Freshman in ’82. My English teacher humiliated us for being obsequious to the Man and I never touched one of his suggested, curricular readings. He failed me. I wanted to say no to drugs, but the youth filmed “on drugs” from the late 60’s early 70’s documentaries fascinated me, not unlike the girl on the Catholic school gymnasium bench one tier below that leaned back on my crotch and propped her elbows on my knees as we gawked. I read brave new world, and years later lived in Santa Fe. The individual is a digit, the position holder, a placemat dignified by coffee mug insignia. What I see of the counterculture now is a failed “response”, an opposition with a postured agenda. The eventual reality situates itself and one asks what had become of the generation that watched the Kennedy brothers stuck and televised, Dr. King popped, Malcolm Little assassinated, and the crudity of flocks of dumb bombs. The beats now form Limp Biscuits, gang rapes at Woodstock, and hipsters with tats and pierced because they’re indie yet enslaved. Clinton, like Gorbachov, made the opposition look familiar. Revolutionary thought begins with contraries. One needn’t be a quantum mechanist to realize that the opposing force turns into/is its opposite. Demand more blasted dead, innumerable heaps of unidentifiable families of the enemy crowned by an unwavering flag. Thirst for steamy blood even if your neighbor is afraid, send them to jail, send in the Moab. Let me catch my breath. Imagine Marx was correct, let’s have a global economy, police the world that isn’t industrialized, mechanize Them, and then make it topple. An infallible anarchist would allow the world run with an American engine.

For this program, it was a bit of overkill. It's a lot of overkill, actually. There's usually no need to store integers in the Heap, unless you're making a whole lot of them. But even in this simpler form, it gives us a little bit more flexibility than we had before, in that we can create and destroy variables as we need, without having to worry about the Stack. It also demonstrates a new variable type, the pointer, which you will use extensively throughout your programming. And it is a pattern that is ubiquitous in Cocoa, so it is a pattern you will need to understand, even though Cocoa makes it much more transparent than it is here.

The Stack is just what it sounds like: a tower of things that starts at the bottom and builds upward as it goes. In our case, the things in the stack are called "Stack Frames" or just "frames". We start with one stack frame at the very bottom, and we build up from there.

Being able to understand that basic idea opens up a vast amount of power that can be used and abused, and we're going to look at a few of the better ways to deal with it in this article.

To address this issue, we turn to the second place to put variables, which is called the Heap. If you think of the Stack as a high-rise apartment building somewhere, variables as tenets and each level building atop the one before it, then the Heap is the suburban sprawl, every citizen finding a space for herself, each lot a different size and locations that can't be readily predictable. For all the simplicity offered by the Stack, the Heap seems positively chaotic, but the reality is that each just obeys its own rules.