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Subject: Re: Languages don't  matter.  A mathematical refutation
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Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org> writes:

> I can't accept as high level any language that requires, for a subprogram to be
> able to modify a parameter, that the parameter must be declared as a pointer and
> the caller must explicitly pass a pointer. FORTRAN, Pascal, and Ada, to name a
> few, don't. C does.

I'd prefer you to say, "I don't like a language that requires [above stuff
about output parameters]."
What's it got to do with "levels"?

- Bob