Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!tuvie!rcvie
From: rcvie@tuvie (ELIN Forsch.z.)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another \"D\" idea: RPN (and more)
Message-ID: <580@tuvie>
Date: 4 Mar 88 10:40:08 GMT
References: <12088@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: rcvie@tuvie.UUCP (Alcatel-ELIN Forsch.z.)
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Lines: 17
Summary: I hope this was not serious!

In article <12088@brl-adm.ARPA> TLIMONCE%DREW.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
>I'm really excited about the idea of a "D" programming language. Let me
>make a suggest or two:
> ... RPN ... [no] pointers ...

I hope you did not really mean that! Even HP had to change to an algebraic
input as people really disliked the polish input, stack handling, etc.
And pointers give the C programmer one of the most powerful means [s]he has
to develop efficient code. Who is not able to use pointers correctly should
better try BASIC or stay away from programming at all.

>  Tom Limoncelli | Drew U/Box 1060/Madison NJ 07940 | tlimonce@drew.BITNET
>      Disclaimer: These are my views, not my employer or Drew Univesity
Does your employer know them?

			Dietmar Weickert,
				ALCATEL-ELIN Research Center, Vienna, Austria.