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David Starner wrote:
> Turning an index into a point has
> been standard in optimizing compilers for at least a decade.

But if you want to call a subroutine to work on part of an array,
in C you can create a pointer into the middle of the array and
pass that, while in Ada you would need to pass both an array and
an index. That's not so easy to optimize away.