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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e7d4f2a40929e50c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-22 18:09:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elnk-pas-nf1!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny03.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031008 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: array and pointers References: <4948f537.0311220139.570c8a4e@posting.google.com> <1hNvb.10796$n56.5522@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <1hNvb.10796$n56.5522@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 02:09:25 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.211.17 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny03.gnilink.net 1069553365 162.84.211.17 (Sat, 22 Nov 2003 21:09:25 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 21:09:25 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2861 Date: 2003-11-23T02:09:25+00:00 List-Id: 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.