Via LtU, Copying, Cloning, and Marshalling in .NET.
I hate to admit it, but as a veteran C++ programmer and COM aficionado, I've spent an embarrassingly large part of the last decade thinking about how the objects in my code will be copied, duplicated, and marshalled from one place to the next. In other words, I spent a lot of time pushing bits around. These days, I'm spending more time with C# and the .NET environment, which offer a wide spectrum of language features and runtime services that make the art of programming vastly simpler, in almost every conceivable fashion -- but still, I find myself wondering about the precise semantics of all the various copying, cloning, and marshalling mechanisms at play in my code.
It has a great little diagram to explain shallow vs. deep copying 
Sunday, March 9, 2003
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