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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
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On 18 juil, 17:50, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> [...]=A0Contrast this to C where
> simple parameter passing often requires pointers, and with Eiffel or
> Java where everything is a pointer whether you like it or not.

There is not such a thing as pointers in Eiffel, there is only
references. A reference may be implemented as a pointer, but must not
be supposed so. An object in Eiffel, may be instanciated on the local
machine, or in a remote mahine over a network, or anything else one
may imagine. This is a abstract reference.

I was to reply to the original poster as well, but will come back
later for that.