Re: Pointers

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From: Ian Joyner
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:51

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Oh, yes in my original rebuttal that C was the start of all these good
high level ideas, because ALGOL and Simula implemented many of these
things before C, I meant to add that C was not just the beginning of
this style of machine-orinted pseudo-HLL.  It had a heritage from CPL to
BCPL to B and then finally to C.  So in fact there was a whole lot of
heritage that C picked up from, prior to C.  The low level lvalue and
rvalue concepts that are not needed in HLLs were certainly in BCPL. 

-- 
Ian Joyner  ACUS (Australian Centre for Unisys Software)    ian@syacus.acus.oz
"Where is the man with all the great directions?...You can't imagine it,
 how hard it is to grow, Can you imagine the order of the universe?" ABWH
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