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Article #1918Re: Answers, Chapter 1: TeX (was C's sins... and others)
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 06:59
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 1990 06:59
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In article <3656@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes: > But the context of the discussion makes it > clear that the person who posted TeX as an example of pointer efficiency > was of the opinion that pointers and arrays differed importantly. That is correct. In Q there is no relation between pointers and arrays, except that a standard pointer abbreviation p[i] happens to look like the array indexing builtin a[i]. > In > fact, in the same news article that he proposed TeX, he also gave > examples which attempted to prove the supposed superiority of pointers > to arrays. Close enough. I will return to this point several articles from now. ---Dan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Answers, Chapter 1: TeX (was C's sins... and others) Message-ID: <1704:Nov606:59:5790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 6 Nov 90 06:59:57 GMT References: <66253@lanl.gov> <14269@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <3656@lanl.gov> Organization: IR Lines: 17