Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!oresoft!dan From: dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: References considered crippled Message-ID: <701@oresoft.uu.net> Date: 15 Jun 89 19:52:34 GMT References: <9473@alice.UUCP> <6361@columbia.edu> Reply-To: dan@oresoft.uu.net (Daniel Elbaum) Distribution: comp.lang.c++ Organization: Oregon Software, Portland, OR Lines: 19 In article <6361@columbia.edu> kearns@read.UUCP () writes: . . . :(arg 5: against) References aren't needed at all since they are just a :shorthand for a constantly dereferenced pointer. :(rebuttal) c++ is just a shorthand for assembly language. but a useful one. (disputation) On most machines, so is LISP. Usefulness is a necessary but not sufficient criterion for a language extension. -- The workaday world must remain transparent to those who maintain it if they are to find inspired within them a vision of the history they create. ({uunet,tektronix,reed,sun!nosun,osu-cis,psu-cs}!oresoft!(dan)@oresoft.uu.net)