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Date: 8 Jan 92 15:38:57 GMT
From: ub!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!elephant.cis.ohio-state.e
du!weide@rutgers.edu  (Bruce Weide)
Subject: Re: Multiple Inheritance in Ada 9X/Pointers?
Message-ID: <1992Jan8.153857.26769@cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <1992Jan06.185123.188@microsoft.com> jimad@microsoft.com (Jim ADCOCK
) writes:
>... in C++ pointers remain the greatest
>power and the greatest danger.  Perhaps we should be discussing doing away
>with pointers in C++ -- not MI !?
>
>1/2 ;-)
>

Not a bad idea!  How about discussing this question?  In Ada or C++,
say, it would be hard to do away with pointers without changing the
language :-) but what about a software discipline that says, "Don't
USE pointers."  Anyone else think it's worth discussing?

    -Bruce