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From: phipps@garth.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a language?
Message-ID: <56@garth.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 90 02:36:34 GMT
References: <4489:05:14:19@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <14242@lambda.UUCP> <24349:04:46:47@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <5184@brazos.Rice.edu>
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In article <5184@brazos.Rice.edu>,
preston@titan.rice.edu (Preston Briggs) wrote:
>
>In article <24349:04:46:47@stealth.acf.nyu.edu>,
>brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) wrote:
>
>>>In languages with recursive data types [etc., 
>>>pointers are never or rarely needed]
>> 
>>Oh, yeah! [...]
>
>It's not such a bad point.  [...] [L]anguages [] with 
>recursive data types manage very nicely without (explicit) pointers.  
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You Q fans owe it to yourselves to read C.A.R. Hoare's 
"Notes on data structuring", in the 1972 Dahl, Dijkstra, Hoare classic
_Structured Programming_.
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