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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Warning: Religious naming convention discussion :-) [was: assign
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Date: 1997/05/12
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Date: 1997-05-12T00:00:00+00:00
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Bob Duff said

<<I mean, by your reasoning, we shouldn't call Ada's arrays "arrays",
because they might be confused with C arrays, which are a very low-level
notion indeed!  ;-)  (And, by the way, I have no objection to a language>>

Why are C arrays very low-level notions?
I agree they are often used this way, but I don't see this from the standard.