Re: What makes a language "easy" to program in?

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From: Steven Ryan
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1988 22:06

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Others have already equated our free use of pointers and disdain of a small set
of data structure for the sake of efficiency to the free use of gotos.

Old programmers never die, they're just following a dangling reference.

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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: What makes a language "easy" to program in?
Summary: Pointers = Gotos.
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Date: 12 Jun 88 22:06:34 GMT
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