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Benefits to Customers</A>
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Babel has two types of customers<A NAME="566"></A>: <SPAN CLASS="textit">developer</SPAN><A NAME="568"></A> and <SPAN CLASS="textit">user</SPAN><A NAME="570"></A>.
The developer implements a library that will be used by one or more users.
Since one goal of the developer is to increase their customer base,
the developer writes a SIDL file
that effectively publishes the
interface to their software in a platform and language
neutral manner.
The user, on the other hand, may not care or even know
that they are interacting with a library through Babel.
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Babel provides some features that benefits user and developer alike.
The most important aspect to note here is that all Babel objects are
reference counted<A NAME="571"></A>. This feature is critical to encapsulate the memory
allocation<A NAME="572"></A> library (e.g. C's malloc/free<A NAME="573"></A> or C++'s new/delete) used in
the implementation of the object. Users never need concern themselves
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