Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!purdue!rjh From: rjh@cs.purdue.EDU (Bob Hathaway) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: What is B&D? (Re: Bondage and Discipline Languages) Message-ID: <5856@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 19 Jan 89 01:34:19 GMT References: <8684@megaron.arizona.edu> Sender: news@cs.purdue.EDU Reply-To: rjh@cs.purdue.edu (Bob Hathaway) Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University Lines: 8 >all programming languages are computationaly equivalent. The question >is _how_ you do it. Can you treat a variable as an integer at one >point then turn around and make it a pointer? If your first reaction Yes, use variant records in Pascal and Modula-2 and unchecked_conversion in Ada. rjh@purdue.edu