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From: sts@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stanley T Shebs)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: new Byte on C
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Date: Wed, 10-Aug-83 14:40:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 10 14:40:10 1983
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Not to stray too far from the original subject, but pointers in C
are far more essential than PROGs in Lisp.  The good Lisp programmer
uses a variety of structured macros rather than PROG.  In my ~3500
lines of Lisp, I have one PROG (and it's there for historical reasons),
but lots of 'loop' and 'let' macros.

Getting back to C, there's no doubt that pointers are essential
to the language.  How would you implement call-by-address, strings,
or linked structures (well ok, it can be done, but you might as well
use Fortran)  I have come to understand Byte less and less over the
years - give me a Dr. Dobb's any day!

					stan the lep hacker
					ssc-vax!sts (soon utah-cs)