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From: dan@idis.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: new Byte on C
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Date: Mon, 8-Aug-83 21:43:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  8 21:43:54 1983
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Another curious indication of how the world views the C language: the
first of three compiler comparison articles discussed half a dozen
C compilers for the 8086 family.  There was only one pointer variable
used anywhere in the benchmark routines and this was in an error
message routine that was presumably never invoked.  Apparently the
authors of the article considered pointers and register variables
to be machine dependent hacks that have no real status in the
C language.

My opinion: C without pointers is just transliterated PASCAL.
Avoiding the use of pointers in C is about as appropriate as
avoiding GOTO statements in FORTRAN or PROGs in LISP.

Dan Strick	University of Pittsburgh	[decvax!mcnc]!idis!dan