Have you ever heard the tragity of Darth malloc the wise? Thought not. It's not a tale Java would tell you, it's a C legend. Malloc was a C function so powerful and so wise that it could use machine language to allocate memory itself. It had so much knowledge of machine code it could create dynamically sized arrays. Unfortunately he taught free everything he knew and one day free deallocated all of its memory. Ironic. It could allocate memory for others, but not itself.