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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Just a question...
Date: 1996/04/30
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Date: 1996-04-30T00:00:00+00:00
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Roga said

 1) Ada is strongly typed and

     True

 2)ya just can't use pointers to just anywhere and change them on
   the fly.

     You can certainly modify pointers. I don't know any language that
     at the semantic level of the language lets you "use pointers to
     just anywhere.:

 3) Code will have bigger executables

     This (a) a property of implementations, not of languages and (b) not
     in any case true of existing implementations.

 4) You can't use pointers to functions.

     That's just false. Ada has that capability (Ada 83 lacked it, but
     we are in 1996 these days!)