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From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: array and pointers
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 02:09:25 GMT
Date: 2003-11-23T02:09:25+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pFUvb.5021$7%4.843@nwrdny03.gnilink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1hNvb.10796$n56.5522@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>

Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> Pointers are needed much more rarely in a high-level language such as Ada
 > than they are in low-level languages such as C and its derivatives.

It happens that Ada lets you make arrays (and other things) with dynamic
sizes and C does not. I don't know that this is enough to qualify Ada as
being "high-level" and C not.




      reply	other threads:[~2003-11-23  2:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-22  9:39 array and pointers shoko
2003-11-22 10:16 ` Gautier Write-only
2003-11-22 15:16 ` Steve
2003-11-22 17:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-11-23  2:09   ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
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