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C/C++ Pointers Ranting and Raving

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From: Emuleomo
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 1990 11:24
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With all this ranting and raving about the evils of pointer arithmetic
in C, do people realise that it may not have been possible to implement
C++ in C (i.e. cfront translator) without using these evil pointers?
Futhermore, how come C is rapidly becoming the most popular 
application implementation language in the world if it is sooo evil?
In fact, most PC applications (Lotus 1-2-3, Foxbase+, Wordperfect etc...)
are being written in C!!!
I say, like capitalism, let the market (users) decide the going price
(favourite language) for the product.
Remember that Ada, despite DOD funding, is languishing! I daresay that even
Forth, an entirely user driven language, is more popular. 
(No disrespect to Forth whatsoever)



--Emuleomo O.O. (emuleomo@yes.rutgers.edu)
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From: emuleomo@paul.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo)
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Subject: C/C++ Pointers Ranting and Raving
Keywords: C,C++,Ranting,Raving
Message-ID: <Mar.23.06.24.39.1990.14840@paul.rutgers.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 90 11:24:41 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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