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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: alloca(), #if, and other controversial things...
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Date: 22 Aug 88 21:51:54 GMT
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Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
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>screw up pointers...) or maintaining a linked list of blocks.  Seems like
>an awful lot of overhead to avoid writing a couple of calls to free().

I once heard of a description of difference between pascal and algol68:
  - pascal does the easy parts and lets the programmers do the hard parts.
  - algol68 does the hard parts and lets the programmers do the easy parts.