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Subject: Re: Languages don't  matter.  A mathematical refutation
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On 04/03/2015 03:37 PM, Bob Duff wrote:
> 
> I think putting "assembly and C" at the same "level" is absurd.
> A C programmer doesn't do register allocation, for just one
> example.  C, Pascal, and Fortran seem more-or-less the same
> "level" to me.  And above that level, I think "level" ceases
> to be meaningful.

I can't accept as high level any language that requires, for a subprogram to be
able to modify a parameter, that the parameter must be declared as a pointer and
the caller must explicitly pass a pointer. FORTRAN, Pascal, and Ada, to name a
few, don't. C does.

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Jeff Carter
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