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Article #45Re: The trouble with pointers.
From: David Koski
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 05:34
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 05:34
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In article <1992Oct28.185105.29857@cheshire.oxy.edu> t_pascal@cheshire.oxy.edu writes: >In article <1992Oct28.043124.24841@ads.com> bvrotney@ADS.COM (Bill Vrotney) >writes: >> That has been solved more than 20 years ago. It is called "Lisp". >> >Oh, yeah, what a *great* language. Why don't we all program in "Lisp"? >Fortran is good, too. (It uses less pointers) Actually the best language ever made is BASIC. It has no pointers, no unions, no structures, no var names larger than 2 chars, etc (this is referring to MS BASIC on my old trs-80 coco). To top it all off, in extended basic, you actually had a line editor available! For you lisp fans who say that you don't have these fine features either, well, in BASIC, you can't have recursive funtions! Top that! David Koski
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!noao!dkoski From: dkoski@noao.edu (David Koski) Subject: Re: The trouble with pointers. Message-ID: <1992Oct29.053402.9555@noao.edu> Sender: news@noao.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: kingfisher.tuc.noao.edu Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ, USA References: <1992Oct28.043124.24841@ads.com> <1992Oct28.185105.29857@cheshire.oxy.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 05:34:02 GMT Lines: 17