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Article #179Re: Re: Garbage Collection & ADTs
From: Stephen Crawley
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1989 09:24
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1989 09:24
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Andrew P. Mullhaupt writes: >> In this newsgroup, we find other programmers arguing that >> programmers should have no direct use for pointers, and so the >> language can determine the correct lifetime of dynamic data. Bill Wolfe replies: > Not exactly. The argument is that pointers should only be > used by ADT implementors, not by application programmers. Some of the best designed programing languages don't have explicit pointers at all!! CLU, Eiffel and ML are good examples. -- Steve
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!cam-cl!scc From: scc@cl.cam.ac.uk (Stephen Crawley) Newsgroups: comp.sw.components Subject: Re: Re: Garbage Collection & ADTs Message-ID: <918@scaup.cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: 27 Sep 89 09:24:49 GMT References: <393@e-street.Morgan.COM> <6593@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: news@cl.cam.ac.uk Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK Lines: 13