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In article <199210271050.AA08841@cnam.cnam.fr> eronald@CNAM.CNAM.FR (Edmund Ronald) writes:

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>   From: eronald@CNAM.CNAM.FR (Edmund Ronald)
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>   As Hoare once said: The pointer represents the greatest backwards step
>   taken in computer science. 
>   There is something very badly wrong with the C language in that even 
>   people who've used it over a matter of years do not understand its 
>   semantics. Of course, when they up and admit it (and their pprograms
>   bomb, or they cannot read other people's nice complex code), we tell them
>   that they're dumb. 
>   Folks, I've been programming for almost 20 years, and I don't mind 
>   admitting that often I cannot understand some ugly pointer construction.
>   And I'll gladly welcome any language feature that will deal with them
>   automatically.

That has been solved more than 20 years ago. It is called "Lisp".



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Bill Vrotney
BAH/Advanced Decision Systems