Editing NewtonScript (section)

== Advantages and disadvantages ==
;Advantages
* NewtonScript is a dynamic prototype based programming language, which uses differential inheritance. This means that it is very effective in using memory space. Being dynamic, it is easy to modify objects, type checking, etc. at run time, giving great flexibility for developers.
* Objects created can be stored in permanent memory like flash card or internal memory. The RAM is used only for storing attributes whose values change during runtime. This reduces memory consumption.
* Writing interfaces for GUI applications can be implemented effectively using the prototype model, since we can directly write an object for a GUI control rather than creating a class and instantiating it.
* [[Garbage collection (computer science)|Garbage collection]] is carried automatically by the system. This helped the developers to focus more on application development rather than worrying about memory management. Garbage collection also helped in mitigating problem of [[dangling pointer]]s where a pointer erroneously points to a memory location that was deallocated.<ref name=":0"/>

;Disadvantages
* Since NewtonScript code was written on one platform and run on another, it was practically impossible to debug.<ref name=":1"/> Better debugging code in the Newton engine would have helped offset this problem to some degree, but the limited memory made this difficult. Instead the developer would get a vague indication along with an error code, without any ability to match it to lines in the original code.
* Another disadvantage is that, dynamic variable reduces the speed of operation since simple pointer dereference cannot be used as in statically typed like C++ and Java.