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In article <BxrK6x.A04@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
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>I do not see how any system of references will enable writing
>
>	*fill(*descriptor)
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>any faster.  Nor do I trust compiler writers (or government bureaucrats.)
>And if the lack of pointers in the languages causes hardware to elide pointers
>in favor of something clumsy like call_by_name, searching the name file, we
>all lose.  I have also pointed out that I want to use this in cases in which
>the calling routine does not even know the name.  True, you could read the
>name, but is that any easier than reading the address?

I guess you don't like pass by reference?  Pass by reference is almost
inevitably implemented using pointers, but doesn't involve _explicit_
pointers set up by the programmer.  You may not need or appreciate
abstractions for your programming, but if you look at the evolution of
language design, abstractions are important for designing and writing very
large, maintainable programs.