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In article <1992Nov10.024021.8724@linus.mitre.org> crawford@boole.mitre.org (Randy Crawford) writes:
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>Remember too, that when C was born in 1969, most programmers were still 
>fighting with 300 baud modems, paper tape, and columnar punch cards.  A terse 
>powerful programming language like C, with user-defined types, dynamic memory 
>and free-form syntax was a huge step forward.  In a lot of ways, more modern 
>languages are still trying to catch up.  It was 1992 before Ada 9X offered us 
>pointers to functions.  But two decades ago they were available in C.

ALGOL 68 and SIMULA 67 have user-defined types, dynamic memory, and
free-form syntax, no?  And why do you need explicit pointers to functions
when you can have procedure types, like Modula-2?