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From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: C's sins of commission (was: (pssst...fortran?))
Message-ID: <64618@lanl.gov>
Date: 3 Oct 90 00:10:31 GMT
References: <151675@felix.UUCP>
Organization: Los Alamos Natl Lab, Los Alamos, N.M.
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From article <151675@felix.UUCP>, by asylvain@felix.UUCP (Alvin E. Sylvain):
> [...]
> I don't have the actual charter in front of me, but it seems to me
> that 'society' and 'futures' kinda sez it all ... and doesn't include
> discussion of whether pointers in C are good, bad or indifferent.
> [...]

On the contrary, in a discussion about future language design, this is
a quite appropriate topic.  It is my contention that future languages
shouldn't have pointers at all.  Not just no C-like pointers, none at
all.  I just picked on C as the most unpleasant example of what I'm
against.

J. Giles