Re: C's sins of commission

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From: Charles Lindsey
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 1990 12:29

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In <2958@igloo.scum.com> nevin@igloo.scum.com (Nevin Liber) writes:

>A related question:  why _don't_ languages such as LISP and Icon (and
>probably Smalltalk; I haven't used it enough to be able to comment on
>it) have pointers on the programming level?  

Smalltalk DOES have pointers on the programming level. Its just that
everything you declare (apart from a few specials like integers) is a pointer
whether you like it or not, so you do not notice the fact until some
unintended aliasing occurs. Eiffel is (more or less) the same.

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From: chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: C's sins of commission
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Date: 22 Oct 90 12:29:55 GMT
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