From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,751d508677a5add1 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.wiretrip.org!news.dizum.com!sewer-output!mail2news From: "Non scrivetemi" Message: This is a Type II anonymous message, sent to you by the Winston Smith Project Pboxmix mixmaster server at pboxmix.winstonsmith.info. If you do not want to receive anonymous messages, please contact pbox-admin@winstonsmith.info. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA made me hate programming References: Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 17:54:05 +0200 (CEST) Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@dizum.com Organization: mail2news@dizum.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12141 Date: 2010-07-02T17:54:05+02:00 List-Id: > Fortran, Cobol and every other higher level language of the time omitted > pointers because almost all of their addressing was direct. I don't know what you meant with this sentence. It was simply the case that pointers weren't provided in the base language because they were unnecesssary. This is not the same as "all of their addressing was direct". In fact pointers were used by the compiled code for argument passing etc. but they were not an abstraction that was required at the source level. BTW since this is comp.lang.ada where people are reminded Ada is a proper name and not an acronym, you should be reminded FORTRAN and COBOL *are* acronyms and should be capitalised as I wrote and not as you wrote.