From: Jon S Anthony <jsa@synquiry.com>
Subject: Re: More like *p versus p[0]
Date: 1997/12/04
Date: 1997-12-04T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uf7m9kaixb.fsf@synquiry.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3486e4ff.2924140@news.thegrid.net
xmobay@thegrid.net (Trevor Longbow) writes:
> Here's a defect: In a program, there are two things: addresses and
> data. Ada takes away 50% of the ballgame--freestyle address
> manipulation--and then calls this a *feature*. This isn't a feature;
> it's Janet Reno Compiler Technology.
Programs = addresses + data. That's pretty lame at best.
1. In Ada you can fiddle "address" stuff if you want (see 'Access and
'Unchecked_Access).
> In Art, there's paint and there's paintbrushes. Nobody's going to take
> away my paintbrushes. But, hey, Trev, trust us; it's an *improvement*!
2. If you really are concerned about this sort of expressive
flexibility and freedom, why bother with something as clumsy,
inflexible, and inexpressive as C? Just go down load CMUCL or get ACL
3.02 and _learn_ what this is really all about.
/Jon
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Jon Anthony
Synquiry Technologies, Ltd., Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383
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Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari
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1997-12-02 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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