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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada is 'better' than C because...
Date: 1996/08/08
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Sandy said

"Since when was pointer arithmetic "essential"? It is simply convenient."

Avoiding pointer arithmetic in C is pretty restrictive, it means not
using arrays at all (remember that in C the notation a[b] is simply
a shorthand for pointer arithmetic).