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From: db@cs.ed.ac.uk (Dave Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Some things that pointer-less languages can't do efficiently
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Date: 16 Oct 90 13:18:24 GMT
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In article <3976@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>(Don't run away with the idea that I'm defending pointers.  My favourite
>languages include ML, Scheme, and Prolog.

ML has reference values, which are basically pointers.  There just
isn't much need to use them.

--
 Dave Berry, LFCS, Edinburgh Uni.      db%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk

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