Re: Anyone want to design a language?

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From: Jim Giles
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 21:01

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From article <628@bbxsda.UUCP>, by scott@bbxsda.UUCP (Scott Amspoker):
> In article <14241@lambda.UUCP> jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
> [...]
>>I'm sorry, but I can't find any good ideas in C.
> 
> Well, here are a few ideas in C (although not unique to C):
> [...]

I'm sorry, I should have been more clear.  I can't find any good ideas
in C which aren't done as well or better (usually better) in many other
languages.  This includes languages which predate the invention of C.

> [...]
>      arrays
> [...]

C doesn't _have_ arrays!  It has a strange variant of pointers which
can (on rare occasions) simulate arrays in a way that is almost as
efficient and easy to read as arrays would have been.  Usually,
however, the simulated arrays are less efficient and cumbersome
to use.

J. Giles

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