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seurer@nordruth.rchland.ibm.com (Bill Seurer) writes:
> This is really evident in C++.  Given the large influx of C trained C++
> programmers it is not surprising that one of the continual debates in
> comp.lang.c++ is "What is the use of reference parameters when I can
> just use pointers instead?"  Having come from a Pascal/Modula-2 background
> I found the lack of reference parms in C a real pain and their inclusion
> in C++ a blessing.

Same here.  When I saw refs in C++, I immediately knew what they were
for and how to use them, despite the poor description given them in
the book I used (as an advanced C, C++ has a lot of good ideas; as an
OO language, it stumbled).  Learning different things helps in
learning new things, so I find it distressing that many schools keep
trying for a one language/one os curriculum.
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