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In article <2171@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>I must be missing some context here, else this doesn't make sense.
>Of course pointers are a necessary thing. Then it's an issue whether
>you make them explicit like in C, Ada or Pascal, or hide them a
>little and call them references like in Eiffel.

I'm missing context, too, and of course I can't know what the original
posters were referring to, but I'd rather like the ability to define
recursive data structures (I think Hoare wrote a paper about this sort
of thing) rather than using pointers.  I tend to agree--pointers are to
data structure what gotos are to control flow.

Speaking of other sins, though, I also hope that future language
designers will bring a "human factors"/"cognitive engineering" person
along for the ride.  IMHO, C would have been VERY different had this
happened when it was created. 

	James Jones