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From: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: JLG's flogging of horses (was Re: Relationship between C and C++)
Message-ID: <9765@yunexus.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 90 21:25:38 GMT
References: <16400@haddock.ima.isc.com> <14307@lambda.UUCP>
Reply-To: oz@yunexus.UUCP (Ozan Yigit)
Organization: York U. Communications Research & Development
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In article <14307@lambda.UUCP> jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:

>I can't see that the model described is particularly appropriate for array
>calculations.

What you can or cannot see is of no interest, nor relevant to this
discussion. [1]

>So, you are allowing the characteristics of some particularly poor 
>implementations to dictate your language design.

Read The Fine Standard instead of speculating on the design described
therein. 

>The _other_ problem here, of course, is that sophisticated users
>often don't care (at least, not at the time) about portability.

You are wrong.

>I can see that it has a subset of a property that might be useful, ie.
>allowing pointers to point anywhere.  I don't find it particularly
>attractive as it is.

See [1].

oz

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