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From: larus@primost.cs.wisc.edu (James Larus)
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Subject: Re: C's sins of commission
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Date: 9 Oct 90 13:27:58 GMT
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In article <1990Oct8.135551.21639@arnor.uucp>, lowry@arnor.uucp writes:
  ... Long discussion of the abscence of pointers in the Hermes language...
|> 
|> Of course, our compiler and run-time system make heavy use of pointers
|> and shared data for reasons of efficiency, but this is completely
|> hidden from the Hermes programmer.
|> 

Does this mean that Hermes programmers aren't concerned with efficiency?

/Jim