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Article #5597Re: What makes a language "easy" to program in?
From: Guido van Rossum
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1988 08:45
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1988 08:45
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In article [...] evan@cunixc.columbia.edu (Evan Bigall) writes: >But, you have to remember that the lack of pointers is a feature not >a bug. It removes the problem of aliasing allowing for a much better >data flow/dependency analysis. I would much rather see records added to APL >than pointers. Typically things like trees are implemented by indexing into >tables. It makes for very clumsy and slow code, but hey this is APL! It >wasnt meant to do things like that. Remember that trees are often used as a way to implement other abstractions: associative arrays, sorted sets with easy insert/ retrieve/delete operations, etc. It might be more appropriate to add such "higher-level" data types to a language than pointers. -- Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam guido@piring.cwi.nl or mcvax!piring!guido or guido%piring.cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net
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