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From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Ada is 'better' than C because...
Date: 1996/08/14
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Obryan Anthony (is this the right order?) says

"  I have a hard time seeing this as a problem.  It's one of the fantastic
advantages of the C language.  An array of any given type can be passed
to a user function and treated as an array of any other integral type,
converted, processed, etc. in any manner the programmer desires."

Nope, C, the language does not permit this, or at least says that the
semantics are implementation defined. So your C compiler may or may
not do something interesting, but you are writing highly non-portable
code if you do this. It is possible to write portable code in C, but
you have to first get rid of attitudes like this!