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From: Chris.Gehlker@p12.f56.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Gehlker)
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Subject: Re: Pascal deficiency?
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Date: 9 Jan 91 01:41:49 GMT
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CHS> I've just picked up this thread, so I hope my comment hasn't 
CHS> been made already. The above complaint appears to be against 
CHS> the Pascal language for not doing a good job on array accesses. 
CHS> The fault is not the language, it's the compiler.

I'm just getting back here after being off line for awhile and I've missed the
intervening posts but your point is well taken.  The example I had in mind,
as opposed to the example I posted, was more complicated.  I was thinking of
a simulation where each cell had to learn the status of it's neighbors. The
pointer arithmetic was a little harrier than simpliy initiallizing an array.

I don't think either MPW Pascal or LSP do any stress reduction.  In fact I've
disassembled eneough LSP to be sure that it doesn't.  I'll have to check MPW.
 
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