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From: whm@arizona.UUCP (Bill Mitchell)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: static links vs. displays
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Date: Wed, 19-Oct-83 20:06:02 EDT
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I believe that the primary advantage of static links is that they are
easier to implement and understand.  This advantage is probably only of
worth from a pedagogical standpoint and thus one would hope to see
displays used in "real" language implementations.

The need for displays (or static links) is one of the several obvious
disadvantages of "block-structured" languages.

					Bill Mitchell
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