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From: kevin@argosy.UUCP (Kevin S. Van Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a language?
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Date: 21 Feb 90 20:36:02 GMT
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In article <14242@lambda.UUCP> jlg@lambda.UUCP (Jim Giles) writes:
>
>In languages with recursive data types, direct dynamic memory (like 
>ALLOCATABLE in Fortran 90), and type coersion I've never seen the 
>need for pointers _AT_ALL_!!  So, rejecting something because it
>interferes with pointers is a null issue.
>

Would you care to expand on this?  I'm not sure what "direct dynamic memory"
is, for starters.

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